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calcaribus

calcaribus is a Latin form of calcar, meaning “spur (for horse); spur, incitement, stimulus; spur of a cock”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.48.5: Commius incensum calcaribus equum coniungit equo Quadrati lanceaque infesta magnis viribus medium femur traicit Voluseni.

All forms of calcar (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.