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aureo

aureo is a Latin form of aureus, meaning “golden, of gold; (noun) a gold coin”. It is the ablative singular masculine adjective.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.12.4: Vtuntur aut aere aut nummo aureo aut taleis ferreis ad certum pondus examinatis pro nummo.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.187: … in legatione et in praetvra et hic in Sicilia versatvs es, ob eas res te, qvoniam re̵ locvpletavi, hoc anvlo avreo dono? vera haec fuisset oratio; neque enim iste anulus aureus abs te datus istum virum fortem, sed hominem lo …

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.M7.18: Aureo laeuam grauior metallo,

All forms of aureus (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.