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clivo

clivo is a Latin form of clivus, meaning “slope, hill”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 64: … tum esse dicebant in quo non Miloni conducta esset domus; arma in villam Ocriculanam devecta Tiberi, domus in clivo Capitolino scutis referta, plena omnia malleolorum ad urbis incendia comparatorum: haec non delata solum, sed …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.7.12: ubi nunc Uicae Potae <aedes> est, domus in infimo cliuo aedificata.

All forms of clivus (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.