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cervicem

cervicem is a Latin form of cervix, meaning “neck, nape of the neck”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 78 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 3.631: cervicem inflexam posuit, iacuitque per antrum

Suetonius, Tiberius 68.2: colore erat candido, capillo pone occipitium summissiore ut ceruicem etiam obtegeret, quod gentile in illo uidebatur; facie honesta, in qua tamen crebri et subiti tumores, cum pr …

Lucan, Civil War 4.639: Cervicemque viri siccam, qua ferret Olympum.

All forms of cervix (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.