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exuvias

exuvias is a Latin form of exuviae, meaning “spoils, things stripped off; cast skin”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 50 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 8.91: Has olim exuvias mihi perfidus ille reliquit,

Propertius, Elegiae 2.14.28: EXVVIAS, TOTA NOCTE RECEPTVS AMANS.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 30.28.5: … diis suis, duratum omnium rerum patientia quas uix fides fiat homines passos, perfusum miliens cruore Romano, exuuias non militum tantum sed etiam imperatorum portantem.

All forms of exuviae (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.