aves

aves is a Latin form of avis, meaning “bird; omen, sign”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 172 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.101: … aliquam utilitatem quam ex ea caperent consecraverunt; velut ibes maximam vim serpentium conficiunt, cum sint aves excelsae cruribus rigidis corneo proceroque rostro; avertunt pestem ab Aegypto, cum volucris anguis ex vastit …

Suetonius, Nero 25.2: … que Palatium et Apollinem petit. incedenti passim uictimae caesae sparso per uias identidem croco ingestaeque aues ac lemnisci et bellaria. sacras coronas in cubiculis circum lectos posuit, item statuas suas citharoedico hab …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 20.122.4: Aves, quae conviviis conparantur, ut inmotae facile pinguescant, in obscuro continentur; ita sine ulla exercitatio …

All forms of avis (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.