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apri

apri is a Latin form of aper, meaning “wild boar”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.127: … ae seselis dicitur. Iam illa cernimus, ut contra vim et metum suis se armis quaeque defendat: cornibus tauri, apri dentibus, cursu leones, aliae fuga se aliae occultatione tutantur, atramenti effusione saepiae torpore torped …

Tacitus, Dialogus 1·13: delectasset enim te et Apri nostri accuratissimus sermo, cum Maternum ut omne ingenium ac studium suum ad causas agendas converteret exho …

All forms of aper (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.