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nega

nega is a Latin form of nego, meaning “deny, say that ... not; refuse”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.1.2: … xat urbanis competitoribus. illam manum tu mihi cura ut praestes, quoniam propius abes, Pompei, nostri amici. nega me ei iratum fore si ad mea comitia non venerit. atque haec huius modi sunt.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 17_18.101.14: … s tuber elisus, cui multae moriendi causae etiam citra crucem fuerant, trahere animam tot tormenta tracturam? Nega nunc magnum beneficium esse naturae, quod necesse est mori.

All forms of nego (conjugation 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.