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turpia

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

Found 80 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.45: … ntionis admurmuratio. idem in eadem contione cum dixisset populatas vexatasque esse provincias, iudicia autem turpia ac flagitiosa fieri; ei rei se providere ac consulere velle; tum vero non strepitu, sed maximo clamore suam 6 …

Ovid, Amores 3.11a.21: Turpia quid referam vanae mendacia linguae

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.