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saevam

saevam is a Latin form of saevus, meaning “fierce, savage”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 7.84: fonte sonat saevamque exhalat opaca mephitim.

Suetonius, Caligula 11.1: naturam tamen saeuam atque probrosam ne tunc quidem inhibere poterat, quin et animaduersionibus poenisque ad supplicium datorum cu …

All forms of saevus (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.