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pravum

pravum is a Latin form of pravus, meaning “crooked; wrong, perverse, bad”. It is the genitive plural neuter adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective or accusative singular masculine adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3.14: … est bonum, quid habebis praeterea, quod sequare? aut, si nihil malum, nisi quod turpe, inhonestum, indecorum, pravum, flagitiosum, foedum—ut hoc quoque pluribus nominibus insigne faciamus—, quid praeterea dices esse fugiendum? …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 25: … ni paruisset legatis; porro animus cupidine caecus ad inceptum scelus rapiebat. vicit tamen in auido ingenio prauum consilium. Igitur exercitu circumdato summa vi Cirtam irrumpere nititur, maxime sperans diducta manu hostium …

All forms of pravus (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.