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catervis

catervis is a Latin form of caterva, meaning “crowd, band, troop”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 14: … eretur; cuius ego facinora oculis prius quam opinione, manibus ante quam suspicione deprendi. cuius in magnis catervis amicorum si fuit etiam Caelius, magis est ut ipse moleste ferat errasse se, sicuti non numquam in eodem homin …

Silius Italicus, Punica 3.300: Marmaridae, medicum uulgus, strepuere cateruis,

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.