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figurae

figurae is a Latin form of figura, meaning “form, shape, figure; style”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.54: … ohaerescunt tamen inter se et aliae alias adprehendentes continuantur; ex quo efficiuntur eae rerum formae et figurae, quas vos effici posse sine follibus et incudibus non putatis. itaque inposuistis in cervicibus nostris sempi …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.14.1: FIGURAE quaedam numerorum, quas Graeci certis nominibus appellant, vocabula in lingua Latina non habent.

All forms of figura (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.