torva

torva is a Latin form of torvus, meaning “grim, fierce, wild”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 57 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 2.63: Torva leaena lupum sequitur; lupus ipse capellam;

Vergil, Aeneid 3.636: ingens, quod torva solum sub fronte latebat,

Suetonius, Caligula 50.1: … pallido, corpore enormi, gracilitate maxima ceruicis et crurum, oculis et temporibus concauis, fronte lata et torua, capillo raro at circa uerticem nullo, hirsutus cetera. quare transeunte eo prospicere ex superiore parte aut …

All forms of torvus (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.