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altis

altis is a Latin form of alo, meaning “nourish, feed, support”.

It can also be a form of altus, “high; deep”. It is the dative plural masculine adjective or ablative plural neuter adjective or perfect passive participle ablative plural feminine or perfect passive participle ablative plural neuter.

Found 176 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.141: et aures, cum sonum percipere debeant qui natura in sublime fertur, recte in altis corporum partibus collocatae sunt; itemque nares et, quod omnis odor ad supera fertur, recte sursum sunt et, …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 2.6.12: Altis ab astris duram illidat corticem,

All forms of alo (conjugation 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.