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pia

pia is a Latin form of pius, meaning “dutiful, devoted (to gods, country, family); good, holy”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective or nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 146 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 4.382: Spero equidem mediis, si quid pia numina possunt,

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.P12·3: … non extra petitas sed intra rei quam tractabamus ambitum collocatas agitauimus, nihil est quod admirere, cum Pia tone sanciente didiceris cognatos de quibus loquuntur rebus oportere esse sermones.

All forms of pius (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.