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armenta

armenta is a Latin form of armentum, meaning “herd (of cattle or horses)”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 100 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 7.7.7: … servias? quid ergo inquis facturus es? idem quod pecudes quae dispulsae sui generis sequuntur greges. ut bos armenta sic ego bonos viros aut eos quicumque dicentur boni sequar, etiam si ruent. quid sit optimum male contractis …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.2.19: Armenta prae se agentes, cum gregibus pascunt, maximeque equini pecoris est eis sollicitior cura. Ibi campi semper he …

All forms of armentum (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.