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famem

famem is a Latin form of fames, meaning “hunger; famine”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun or accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 158 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.28.3: … gos in fines suos, unde erant profecti, reverti iussit, et, quod omnibus frugibus amissis domi nihil erat quo famem tolerarent, Allobrogibus imperavit ut iis frumenti copiam facerent; ipsos oppida vicosque, quos incenderant, …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.785: non adeunda deae est (neque enim Cereremque Famemque

All forms of fames (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.