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duros

duros is a Latin form of durus, meaning “hard; harsh, stern, rough; tough, hardy; cruel”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.144: … tutandique sensus, et ne adiectae voces laberentur atque errarent prius quam sensus ab his pulsus esset. sed duros et quasi corneolos habent introitus multisque cum flexibus, quod his naturis relatus amplificatur sonus; quoc …

All forms of durus (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.