dii

dii is a Latin form of dius, meaning “divine; (dii, di) the gods”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 2.18: Atque hoc eo magis est in Romulo admirandum, quod ceteri, qui dii ex hominibus facti esse dicuntur, minus eruditis hominum saeculis fuerunt, ut fingendi proclivis esset ratio, …

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 2.7.2: … ui melius consilium dare possit quam tu, non facile. inveniri potest; tibi vero ipsi certe nemo melius dabit. Dii immortales! cur ego absum vel spectator laudum tuarum vel particeps vel socius vel minister consiliorum? tame …

All forms of dius (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.