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perpetua

perpetua is a Latin form of perpetuus, meaning “continuous, uninterrupted; permanent, lasting”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 201 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.40.13: Suam innocentiam perpetua vita, felicitatem Helvetiorum bello esse perspectam.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 4.33.6: … fiet; ingens eorum turba est passim iacentium, sumenda erunt, non colligenda. Non enim excidunt, sed fluunt. Perpetua et inter se contexta sunt. Nec dubito, quin multum conferant rudibus adhuc et extrinsecus auscultantibus; fac …

All forms of perpetuus (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.