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vetusta

vetusta is a Latin form of vetustus, meaning “old, ancient, long-established”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.25: … éstes excipio ánxias Amóre mortis términum anquiréns mali; Sed lónge a leto númine aspellór Iovis, Atque haéc vetusta, saéclis glomerata hórridis, Luctífica clades nóstro infixa est córpori; E quó liquatae sólis ardore éxcidunt …

Cicero, De Haruspicum Responso In P. Clodium 37: et video in haruspicum responsum haec esse subiuncta: sacrificia vetvsta occvltaqve minvs diligenter facta pollvtaqve. haruspices haec loquuntur an patrii penatesque di? multi enim s …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 7.3.5: lex uetusta est, priscis litteris uerbisque scripta, ut qui praetor maximus sit idibus Septembribus clauum pangat; fixa fuit dextro lateri aedis Iouis optimi maximi, ex qua parte Mineruae templum est.

All forms of vetustus (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.