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saevis

saevis is a Latin form of saevus, meaning “fierce, savage”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective.

Found 106 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 7.222: Quanta per Idaeos saevis effusa Mycenis

Tibullus, Elegiae 3.7.144: impia nec saeuis celebrans conuiuia mensis

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 3.M12.11: Saeuis cerua leonibus,

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.