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catervae

catervae is a Latin form of caterva, meaning “crowd, band, troop”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 77: … is vis, ferocitas, pertinacia, si quem etiam minimorum horum aliquid offendit, si purpurae genus, si amicorum catervae, si splendor, si nitor, iam ista deferverint, iam aetas omnia, iam res, iam dies mitigarit. conservate igitur …

Silius Italicus, Punica 12.416: agmina, et effusae pariter dant terga cateruae.

All forms of caterva (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.