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sancta

sancta is a Latin form of sancio, meaning “ratify; decree”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 127 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.108: … t nefaria est ut, etiamsi lex non esset, magnopere vitanda fuerit. atque in his ipsis rebus multa videmus ita sancta esse legibus ut ante facta in iudicium non vocentur; Cornelia testamentaria, nummaria, ceterae complures, in …

Vergil, Aeneid 12.648: Sancta ad vos anima atque istius nescia culpae

All forms of sancio (conjugation 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.