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pretiosa

pretiosa is a Latin form of pretiosus, meaning “costly, precious, valuable”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 65 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.47: … in senatu; dicebant scyphorum paria complura, hydrias argenteas pretiosas, vestem stragulam multam, mancipia pretiosa data esse Verri; dicebant quantum cuique eius iussu nummorum esset datum. gemebant Syracusani, sed tamen pati …

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 2.M5.30: Pretiosa pericula fodit?

All forms of pretiosus (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.