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formidine

formidine is a Latin form of formido, meaning “(noun) fear, dread; (verb formidare) fear, dread”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 162 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.14: … ceterorum, cruciatus et crux. hisce omnibus suppliciis sunt liberati. quis dubitet quin servorum animos summa formidine oppresserit, cum viderent ea facilitate praetorem ut ab eo servorum sceleris coniurationisque damnatorum vita …

Lucan, Civil War 7.248: Nec Magni sperare sinunt. Formidine mersa,

All forms of formido (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.