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pie

pie is a Latin form of pius, meaning “dutiful, devoted (to gods, country, family); good, holy”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 51 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 42: … tius et natura et voluntate et instituta ratione vitae. sed cum esset haec ei proposita condicio ut aut iuste pieque accusaret aut acerbe indigneque moreretur, accusare quoquo modo posset quam illo modo emori maluit.

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.