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praecipue

praecipue is a Latin form of praecipuus, meaning “special, particular, chief; (praecipue) especially”. It is the adverb.

Found 404 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.40.15: Quod si praeterea nemo sequatur, tamen se cum sola decima legione iturum, de qua non dubitet, sibique eam praetoriam cohortem futuram. Huic legioni Caesar et indulserat praecipue et propter virtutem confidebat maxime.

Vergil, Aeneid 1.220: Praecipue pius Aeneas nunc acris Oronti,

All forms of praecipuus (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.