saevior

saevior is a Latin form of saevus, meaning “fierce, savage”. It is the nominative singular masculine comparative adjective or vocative singular masculine comparative adjective or nominative singular feminine comparative adjective or vocative singular feminine comparative adjective.

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

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 3.246: saevior erravit campis, nec funera volgo

Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.711: Saevior illa freto surgente cadentibus Haedis,

Suetonius, Domitianus 10.5: Verum aliquanto post ciuilis belli uictoriam saeuior, plerosque partis aduersae, dum etiam latentis conscios inuestigato, nouo quaestionis genere distorsit immiss …

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.