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purum

purum is a Latin form of purus, meaning “pure, clean; plain, simple”. It is the genitive plural neuter adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective or accusative singular masculine adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.49: … amiliari, qui nunc apud exercitum cum L. Lucullo est, non idem fecit? cenabat apud eum; argentum ille ceterum purum adposuerat, ne purus ipse relinqueretur, duo pocula non magna, verum tamen cum emblemate. hic tamquam festivu …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.17.10: … virtute vívere animatum áddecet, Fórtiterque innóxium stare ádversum adversários. Éa libertas ést, qui pectus púrum et firmum géstitat, Áaliaeliae res obnóxiosae nócte in obscurá latent?

All forms of purus (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.