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saevum

saevum is a Latin form of saevus, meaning “fierce, savage”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 84 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.50: … éxcrucior. incipit labi, deinde ilico desinit: Operíte, abscedite iám iam! Mittíte! nam attrectatu ét quassu Saevum ámplificatis dolórem. videsne, ut obmutuerit non sedatus corporis, sed castigatus animi dolor? itaque in extr …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 8.16.1: … andem rationem fore Caesaris in dimittendis adversariis et condicionibus ferendis, erras; nihil nisi atrox et saevum cogitat atque etiam loquitur; iratus senatui exiit his intercessionibus plane incitatus est; non me hercules …

Suetonius, Divus Claudius 34.1: Saeuum et sanguinarium natura fuisse, magnis minimisque apparuit rebus. tormenta quaestionum poenasque parricidarum …

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.