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validum

validum is a Latin form of validus, meaning “strong”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 66 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 16.4.3: … na, provincialia, in re privata, in publica, in studiis, in litteris nostris; omnia viceris, si, ut spero, te validum videro. ego puto te bellissime, si recte erit, cum quaestore Mescinio decursurum. non inhumanus est teque, ut …

Plautus, Truculentus 1.2.126b: Valeo et validúm teneo.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 22.47.5: tandem Romani, diu ac saepe conisi, aequa fronte acieque densa impulere hostium cuneum nimis tenuem eoque parum ualidum, a cetera prominentem acie.

All forms of validus (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.