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ense

ense is a Latin form of ensis, meaning “sword”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 189 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 6.251: ense ferit, sterilemque tibi. Proserpina, vaccam.

Ovid, Amores 3.8.14: Ense latus cinctum, quod tibi servit, erat;

All forms of ensis (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.