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asinum

asinum is a Latin form of asinus, meaning “donkey, ass; fool”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.5.2: … nolunt amare, demus operam ut ab iis qui a possunt diligamur. dices vellem iam pridem. scio te voluisse et me asinum germanum fuisse. sed iam tempus est me ipsum a me amari, quando ab illis nullo modo possum. domum meam quod c …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 4.1.5: Asinum solebant baiulantem sarcinas.

All forms of asinus (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.