carceris

carceris is a Latin form of carcer, meaning “prison; starting gate (of a racecourse)”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.118: patres hi quos videtis iacebant in limine, matresque miserae pernoctabant ad ostium carceris ab extremo conspectu liberum exclusae; quae nihil aliud orabant nisi ut filiorum suorum postremum spiritum or …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.453: Carceris ante fores clausas adamante sedebant

All forms of carcer (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.