SILI

SILI is a Latin form of silus, meaning “snub-nosed; (Silius) Silius, a Roman name”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of Silius, “Silius, a Roman name (incl. Silius Italicus, the epic poet)”. It is the vocative singular masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 7.21.1: Sili causam te docui. is postea fuit apud me. Cum ei dicerem tibi videri sponsionem illam nos sine periculo facere …

Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.1.10: … ratrem, i ad filium.” Iam quidam nobis eandem fortunam precantur. crede mihi, sacra populi lingua est. ALBVCI SILI. Tollite uestras diuitias quas huc atque illuc incertae fortunae fluctus appellet; redite in gratiam:

All forms of silus (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.