nefanda

nefanda is a Latin form of nefandus, meaning “unspeakable, impious, abominable”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 13.22: … uto supplicio parricidi aut impendente laetandum est. O Spartace! quem enim te potius appellem, cuius propter nefanda scelera tolerabilis videtur fuisse Catilina? laetandum esse ausus es scribere Trebonium dedisse poenas? scele …

Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.6: … ad supplicium puella. pater defendit. Non prodesset tibi, puella, quod te amauit frater, nisi mater odisset. Nefanda mulier, etiam filiae nouerca, ne mori quidem potuit, nisi et occideret. In gladiatoribus quoque condicio dura …

All forms of nefandus (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.