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vitae

vitae is a Latin form of vita, meaning “life”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun.

Found 1,548 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.16.5: … Diviciaco et Lisco, qui summo magistratui praeerat, quem vergobretum appellant Haedui, qui creatur annuus et vitae necisque in suos habet potestatem, graviter eos accusat,

Cicero, De Republica 3.15: … Aegypti Busiris, ut Galli, ut Poeni, homines immolare et pium et dis immortalibus gratissumum esse duxerunt! Vitae vero instituta sic distant, ut Cretes et Aetoli latrocinari honestum putent, Lacedaemonii suos omnes agros es …

Suetonius, Divus Julius 59.1: … rouincia fataliter Scipionum nomen ferebatur, despectissimum quendam ex Corneliorum genere, cui ad opprobrium uitae Saluitoni cognomen erat, in castris secum habuit.

All forms of vita (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.