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torvo

torvo is a Latin form of torvus, meaning “grim, fierce, wild”. It is the ablative singular neuter adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective or dative singular neuter adjective or dative singular masculine adjective.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 3.677: Cernimus adstantis nequiquam lumine torvo

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.8.6: … oria prosequar. coacta es eo loci consistere, ubi principum ciuitatis perturbari frons solebat, instabat tibi toruo uultu minas profundens amplissima potestas, clamore imperitae multitudinis obstrepens totum forum acerrimo st …

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.