asini

asini is a Latin form of Asinius, meaning “Asinius, name of a Roman clan (e.g. C. Asinius Pollio)”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of asinus, “donkey, ass; fool”.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 11.9.1: … am de Pollione Asinio puto te perspicere quid facturus sit. multae et bonae et firmae sunt legiones Lepidi et Asini.

Ovid, Fasti 6.346: asini flammis indicis exta damus.

Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 6.15: … cuilibet uideri potest. Pollio uult illam ueram uideri; ita enim dixit in ea oratione quam pro Lamia edidit. ASINI POLLIONIS. “Itaque numquam per Ciceronem mora fuit, quin eiuraret suas esse quas cupidissime effuderat oratio …

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.