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cineres

cineres is a Latin form of cinis, meaning “ashes; ruin”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 119 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 8.101: Fer cineres, Amarylli, foras, rivoque fluenti

Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 4.1: … pater fleret. Senex, orbus, infelix, hoc tantum inter miserias solatium capio quod miserior esse non possum. Cineres meorum in sepulchro uideo. Magnum solatium est saepius appellare liberorum non responsura nomina. Hic mihi ui …

All forms of cinis (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.