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extis

extis is a Latin form of exta, meaning “entrails (of a sacrificial animal)”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun.

Found 72 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.166: … ibus rerum futurarum, quae tum dormientibus tum vigilantibus portenduntur; multa praeterea ostentis, multa in extis admonemur multisque rebus aliis, quas diuturnus usus ita notavit ut artem divinationis efficeret.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.1.10: Extis itidem pecudum attenti fatidicis, in species converti assuetis innumeras, accidentia sciunt. Cuius disciplinae Tages nomine quidam monstrator est, ut fabulantur, in Etruriae partibus emersisse subito visus e terra.

All forms of exta (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.