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saevi

saevi is a Latin form of saevus, meaning “fierce, savage”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of saevio, “rage, be fierce, rave”.

Found 89 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 1.25: necdum etiam causae irarum saevique dolores

Petronius, Satyricon 107: … dat. Flectite ergo mentes satisfactione lenitas, et patimini liberos homines ire sine iniuria, quo destinant. Saevi quoque implacabilesque domini crudelitatemn suam impediunt, si quando paenitentia fugitivos reduxit, et dedit …

Silius Italicus, Punica 2.555: haec bello uacuos et saeui turbine Martis

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.