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alvo

alvo is a Latin form of alvus, meaning “belly, stomach; womb; hive”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 48 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 34: … la pretio accepto multisque praeterea muneribus quae tum ex tabulis Oppianici recitabantur spem illam quam in alvo commendatam a viro continebat victa avaritia sceleri Oppianici vendidit. nihil posse iam ad hanc improbitatem …

Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 24.1: … uitiasset nec eo minus muneribus imperatoriis ex consuetudine fungeretur, ut etiam legationes audiret cubans, aluo repente usque ad defectionem soluta, imperatorem ait stantem mori oportere; dumque consurgit ac nititur, inte …

All forms of alvus (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.