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dextro

dextro is a Latin form of dexter, meaning “right (hand); favorable”. It is the dative singular masculine adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective.

Found 148 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.52.2: ipse a dextro cornu, quod eam partem minime firmam hostium esse animadverterat, proelium commisit.

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 1.4.7: … pite pupillus et spado tulere sententiam, de Crasso crudelis et insolens Parthus; Gaius Caesar iussit Lepidum Dextro tribuno praebere cervicem, ipse Chaereae praestitit. Neminem eo fortuna provexit, ut non tantum illi minaretu …

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.