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vidua

vidua is a Latin form of viduus, meaning “widowed, bereft; (vidua) widow”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 38: … bidines omnium commearent, quae etiam aleret adulescentis et parsimoniam patrum suis sumptibus sustineret; si vidua libere, proterva petulanter, dives effuse, libidinosa meretricio more viveret, adulterum ego putarem si quis …

Martial, Epigrammata 3.58.3: Viduaque platano tonsilique buxeto

Plautus, Menaechmi 1.2.113: fáxis, faxó foris vídua visás patrem.

All forms of viduus (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.