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suave

suave is a Latin form of suus, meaning “his, her, its, their (own)”.

It can also be a form of suavis, “sweet, pleasant, delightful”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective or accusative singular neuter adjective or nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.88: … no fruitur, id est voluptate. At enim hic etiam dolore. At eum nihili facit; ait enim se, si uratur, Quam hoc suave! dicturum.

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.1: Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis

Augustine, Confessiones 4.12: … portari a me, et ubi eam ponerem non inueniebam. non in amoenis nemoribus, non in ludis atque cantibus nec in suaue olentibus locis nec in conuiuiis apparatis nec in uoluptate cubilis et lecti, non denique in libris atque car …

All forms of suus (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.