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viduae

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

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Fasti 2.557: dum tamen haec fiunt, viduae cessate puellae:

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.13.3: 'si adfinitatis inter uos, si conubii piget, in nos uertite iras; nos causa belli, nos uolnerum ac caedium uiris ac parentibus sumus; melius peribimus quam sine alteris uestrum uiduae aut orbae uiuemus.' mouet res cum multitudinem tum duces;

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.