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contentionibus

contentionibus is a Latin form of contentio, meaning “exertion, effort; contest, rivalry; dispute”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.44.9: … m esse rerum ut non sciret neque bello Allobrogum proximo Haeduos Romanis auxilium tulisse neque ipsos in iis contentionibus quas Haedui secum et cum Sequanis habuissent auxilio populi Romani usos esse.

All forms of contentio (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.