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miserae

miserae is a Latin form of miser, meaning “wretched, unhappy”. It is the dative singular feminine adjective or nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 186 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.93: … edictisque tuis in te concitati infestique sunt: malleolus a me productus est et mater eius atque avia, quae miserae flentes eversum a te puerum patriis bonis esse dixerunt.

Vergil, Aeneid 4.420: et perferre, soror, potero. Miserae hoc tamen unum

Plautus, Cistellaria 3.1.641: periimus miseraé.

All forms of miser (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.