mite

mite is a Latin form of mitis, meaning “mild, gentle, soft; ripe”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.1.3: … e fuit. ex quo ego veni ad ea quae fueramus ego et tu inter nos de sorore in Tusculano locuti. nihil tam vidi mite, nihil tam placatum quam tum meus frater erat in sororem tuam, ut, etiam si qua fuerat ex ratione sumptus off …

Ovid, Amores 1.4.36: Mite nec in rigido pectore pone caput;

All forms of mitis (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.