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sacrae

sacrae is a Latin form of sacer, meaning “sacred, holy; accursed; (sacra, n. pl.) rites, sacrifices, worship”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective or vocative plural feminine adjective or dative singular feminine adjective or genitive singular feminine adjective.

Found 45 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.118: … aditumque proiecta est; in qua domus est quae Hieronis regis fuit, qua praetores uti solent. in ea sunt aedes sacrae complures, sed duae quae longe ceteris antecellant, Dianae, et altera, quae fuit ante istius adventum ornatis …

Suetonius, Vitellius 17.1: … s laqueo, ueste discissa seminudus in forum tractus est inter magna rerum uerborumque ludibria per totum uiae Sacrae spatium, reducto coma capite, ceu noxii solent, atque etiam mento mucrone gladii subrecto, ut uisendam praebe …

All forms of sacer (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.