axe

axe is a Latin form of axis, meaning “axle; pole (of the sky); the sky”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 83 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.68: … io mundi universi loco, duabus oris distantibus habitabilem et cultum, quarum altera, quam nos incolimus, Sub áxe posita ad stéllas septem, unde hórrifer, Aquilónis stridor gélidas molitúr nives, altera australis, ignota no …

Vergil, Aeneid 2.512: Aedibus in mediis nudoque sub aetheris axe

Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.214: Axe sub Hesperio sunt pascua Solis equorum.

All forms of axis (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.