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turpes

turpes is a Latin form of turpis, meaning “ugly; shameful, disgraceful, base”. It is the nominative plural feminine adjective.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 5.15: … rum, direptio eius pecuniae cuius ratio in aede Opis confecta est hanc tertiam decuriam excogitavit; nec ante turpes iudices quaesiti quam honestis iudicibus nocentium salus desperata est.

Martial, Epigrammata 1.104.8: Turpes esseda quod trahunt visontes

All forms of turpis (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.