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dextris

dextris is a Latin form of dexter, meaning “right (hand); favorable”.

It can also be a form of dextera, “right hand; pledge, promise (given with the right hand)”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or ablative plural neuter adjective or ablative plural feminine adjective.

Found 49 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.50.2: Hi similitudine armorum vehementer nostros perterruerunt, ac tametsi dextris humeris exsertis animadvertebantur, quod insigne pactum esse consuerat, tamen id ipsum sui fallendi causa milites ab hostibus factum existimabant.

All forms of dexter (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.