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maestum

maestum is a Latin form of maestus, meaning “sad, mournful, gloomy”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Murena 90: … mortuo, date generi et familiae, date etiam Lanuvio, municipio honestissimo, quod in hac tota causa frequens maestumque vidistis. nolite a sacris patriis Iunonis Sospitae, cui omnis consules facere necesse est, domesticum et s …

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 8.2.39: Deinde ne illo quidem adminiculo sustinente manibus regis exceptus est: inter quas conlapsus extinguitur. Maestum regem alius haud levis dolor excepit.

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.