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ferro

ferro is a Latin form of ferrum, meaning “iron; sword”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 833 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.30.3: qui, si per te liceat, perendino die cum proximis hibernis coniuncti communem cum reliquis belli casum sustineant, non reiecti et relegati longe ab ceteris aut ferro aut fame intereant."

Cicero, De Officiis 1.38: … dendis illa praeclara: Nec mi aurum posco nec mi pretium dederitis, Nec cauponantes bellum, sed belligerantes Ferro, non auro vitam cernamus utrique. Vosne velit an me regnare era, quidve ferat Fors, Virtute experiamur. Et ho …

All forms of ferrum (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.