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segnior

segnior is a Latin form of segnis, meaning “slow, sluggish, lazy”. 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.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.11B.3: … m, quo mihi nihil optatius est, idque tecum quo die ab urbe discessimus locutus sum. ego si quoi adhuc videor segnior fuisse, dum ne tibi videar, non laboro et tamen si, ut video, bellum gerendum est, confido me omnibus facile …

Lucan, Civil War 7.1: Segnior Oceano, quam lex aeterna vocabat,

All forms of segnis (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.