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ceras

ceras is a Latin form of cera, meaning “wax; wax tablet”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 3.450: Idaeasque pices et pinguis unguine ceras

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.8.8: … thyras portus despectat et Selymbria et Constantinopolis, vetus Byzantium, Atticorum colonia, et promuntorium Ceras praelucentem navibus vehens constructam celsius turrim, quapropter Ceratas appellatur ventus inde suetus orir …

All forms of cera (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.