maesta

maesta is a Latin form of maestus, meaning “sad, mournful, gloomy”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 131 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.78: … lent esse nuptae—; quae est victrix, ea laeta prosequentibus suis una cum viro in rogum imponitur, illa victa maesta discedit. numquam naturam mos vinceret; est enim ea semper invicta; sed nos umbris deliciis otio languore des …

Ovid, Amores 2.5.44: Maesta erat in vultu — maesta decenter erat.

All forms of maestus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.