piae

piae is a Latin form of pius, meaning “dutiful, devoted (to gods, country, family); good, holy”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective or vocative plural feminine adjective or dative singular feminine adjective or genitive singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of pigeo, “(impers. piget me) it annoys me, I regret (+gen.)”.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.40: … excepti refugerant, eam navem expugnavit, eodemque tempore ex altera parte molem tenuit naturalem obiectam, (piae paene insulam oppidum effecerat, et IIII biremes subiectis scutulis impulsas vectibus in interiorem portum tr …

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.