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violenta

violenta is a Latin form of violentus, meaning “violent, impetuous, forceful”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective or vocative plural neuter adjective or accusative plural neuter adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 10.151: quae sibi conciliet, violentaque pectora Turni

Tibullus, Elegiae 3.7.73: nec uiolenta suo consumpsit more Charybdis,

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.14.10: Tum admirationi fuisse aiunt Rutilius et Polybius philosophorum trium sui cuiusque generis facundiam. Violenta, inquiunt, et rapida Carneades dicebat, scita et teretia Critolaus, modesta Diogenes et sobria.

All forms of violentus (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.