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arvis

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

Found 153 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.25: praeter Arcadas et Atheniensis, qui, credo, timentes hoc interdictum iustitiae ne quando existeret, commenti sunt se de terra tamquam hos ex arvis musculos extitisse.

Suetonius, Nero 31.1: … plices miliarias haberet; item stagnum maris instar, circumsaeptum aedificiis ad urbium speciem; rura insuper aruis atque uinetis et pascuis siluisque uaria, cum multitudine omnis generis pecudum ac ferarum.

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.