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rara

rara is a Latin form of rarus, meaning “scattered, far apart; few, rare; (raro) seldom”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 149 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Amicitia 79: … igni autem sunt amicitia, quibus in ipsis inest causa cur diligantur. rarum genus! et quidem omnia praeclara, rara, nec quicquam difficilius quam reperire quod sit omni ex parte in suo genere perfectum. sed plerique neque in …

Vergil, Georgics 2.227: Rara sit an supra morem si densa requires—

All forms of rarus (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.