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exempli

exempli is a Latin form of exemplum, meaning “example, model, pattern; precedent; warning, punishment as an example; copy”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

Found 79 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 27: … qua pater usus erat plurimum; in qua muliere, iudices, etiam nunc, id quod omnes semper existimaverunt, quasi exempli causa vestigia antiqui offici remanent. ea Sex. Roscium inopem, eiectum domo atque expulsum ex suis bonis, fu …

Ovid, Amores 1.4.46: Exemplique metu torqueor, ecce, mei.

All forms of exemplum (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.