sicca

sicca is a Latin form of siccus, meaning “dry”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of sicco, “dry, dry up; drain”.

Found 83 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 14.4.6: … . Sallustius officio vincit omnis. Pescennius est perbenevolus nobis; quem semper spero tui fore observantem. Sicca dixerat se mecum fore sed Brundisio discessit. cura, quod potes, ut valeas et sic existimes, me vehementius t …

Vergil, Eclogues 7.56: montibus his abeat, videas et flumina sicca.

Plautus, Curculio 1.2.121b: Egon sálva sim, quaé siti sícca sum?

All forms of siccus (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.