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calamo

calamo is a Latin form of calamus, meaning “reed; reed pen; arrow”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun or dative singular masculine noun.

Found 31 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus 2.14.1: calamo et atramento temperato, charta etiam dentata res agetur. scribis enim te meas litteras superiores vix legere …

All forms of calamus (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.