vasta

vasta is a Latin form of vasto, meaning “lay waste, ravage, devastate”.

It can also be a form of vastus, “vast, huge, immense; desolate, empty”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or 2nd person singular present active imperative.

Found 79 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.114: … tri. Propter quae Centaurus cedit Equi partis properans subiungere Chelis. hic dextram porgens, quadrupes qua vasta tenetur, tendit et inlustrem truculentus cedit ad Aram. Hic sese infernis e partibus erigit Hydra, cuius long …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.346: Vasta giganteis ingesta est insula membris

Livy, Ab urbe condita 7.33.10: agitedum, ut me uideritis, quacumque incessero in aciem hostium, ferro uiam facientem, sic pro se quisque obuios sternite; illa omnia, qua nunc erectae micant hastae, patefacta strage uasta cernetis.' haec dicta dederat,

All forms of vasto (conjugation 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.