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arva

arva is a Latin form of arvum, meaning “plowed field, land; (pl.) fields, countryside”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 289 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.122: … on ad illius commoda quem diligemus, non erit ista amicitia sed mercatura quaedam utilitatum suarum. prata et arva et pecudum greges diliguntur isto modo, quod fructus ex is capiuntur, hominum caritas et amicitia gratuita es …

Ovid, Amores 2.16.5: Arva pererrantur Paeligna liquentibus undis,

Suetonius, Domitianus 7.2: ad summam quondam ubertatem uini, frumenti uero inopiam existimans nimio uinearum studio neglegi arua, edixit, ne quis in Italia nouellaret utque in prouinciis uineta succiderentur, relicta ubi plurimum dimidia …

All forms of arvum (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.