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novercae

novercae is a Latin form of noverca, meaning “stepmother”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 2.128: pocula si quando saevae infecere novercae,

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.3: … um Aenea constat—abundante Lauinii multitudine florentem iam ut tum res erant atque opulentam urbem matri seu nouercae relinquit, nouam ipse aliam sub Albano monte condidit quae ab situ porrectae in dorso urbis Longa Alba appell …

All forms of noverca (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.