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viva

viva is a Latin form of vivus, meaning “alive, living”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 73 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 22: … undem illum Oppianicum, nepotem suum; atque eis diebus paucis est mortua. propinqui tamen illi, quem ad modum viva Dinaea instituerant, ita mortua illa ad investigandum M.Marcum Aurium cum eodem illo indice in agrum Gallicum …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.644: Vivaque adhuc animaeque aliquid retinentia membra

Suetonius, Divus Claudius 11.2: … amplius patri circenses annuos natali die, matri carpentum, quo per circum duceretur, et cognomen Augustae ab uiua recusatum. †a fratris memoria per omnem occasionem celebratam comoediam quoque Graecam Neapolitano certamine …

All forms of vivus (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.