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certaminum

certaminum is a Latin form of certamen, meaning “contest, competition; struggle, battle; rivalry”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Tacitus, Dialogus 1·4: … cellus quam eloquentiam suam opposuit? qua accinctus et minax disertam quidem, sed inexercitatam et eius modi certaminum rudem Helvidii sapientiam elusit. plura de utilitate non dico, cui parti minime contra dicturum Maternum meum …

All forms of certamen (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.