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avibus

avibus is a Latin form of avis, meaning “bird; omen, sign”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 1.271: insidias avibus moliri, incendere vepres,

Plautus, Persa 1.1.4: cum avibús Stymphalicís, cum Antaeo déluctari mávelim,

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.12.4: arma ad caelum tollens, 'Iuppiter, tuis' inquit 'iussus auibus hic in Palatio prima urbi fundamenta ieci. arcem iam scelere emptam Sabini habent; inde huc armati superata media ualle tendunt;

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.