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nefaria

nefaria is a Latin form of nefarius, meaning “wicked, impious, abominable”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 54 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 13: … los vestros trucidetur; denique accusant ei quos populus poscit, causam dicit is qui unus relictus ex illorum nefaria caede restat.

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.6.1: … ccidisti, nouerca, quod scisti consciam eligere poenae. Dixit: anteactam eius uitam excutiamus. FVLVI Sparsi. Nefaria mulier, filiae quoque nouerca, ne mori quidem potuit, nisi ut occideret. Inter gladiatores quoque uictoris co …

All forms of nefarius (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.