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agnum

agnum is a Latin form of agnus, meaning “lamb”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of agnos, “chaste-tree (vitex agnus castus), tall plant resembling the willow”.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.68: … ulterio quaereret: addo inquit huc, quod mihi portento caelestum pater prodigium misit, regni stabilimen mei, agnum inter pecudes aurea clarum coma quondam Thyestem clepere ausum esse e regia, a qua in re adiutricem coniugem …

All forms of agnus (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.