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crebris

crebris is a Latin form of creber, meaning “frequent, repeated; thick, crowded; (crebro) often”. It is the ablative plural feminine adjective.

Found 203 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.17.4: … itimorum equitatum, si praedandi causa ad eos venissent, impedirent, teneris arboribus incisis atque inflexis crebrisque in latitudinem ramis enatis [et] rubis sentibusque interiectis effecerant ut instar muri hae saepes munime …

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.9: … Quidni? Lacunosis incilibus voraginosam, partim stagnanti palude fluidam et alibi subluvie caenosa lubricam. Crebris denique offensaculis et assiduis lapsibus iam contusis cruribus meis vix tandem ad campestres semitas fessus …

All forms of creber (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.