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frenis

frenis is a Latin form of frenum, meaning “bridle, bit, reins; restraint”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 77 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.1.12: Cicerones pueri amant inter se, exercentur, sed discunt, alter, uti dixit Isocrates in Ephoro et Theopompo, frenis eget, alter calcaribus. Quinto togam puram Liberalibus cogitabam dare; mandavit enim pater. ea sic observabo …

Lucan, Civil War 2.146: Frenis ira ruit. Non uni cuncta dabantur,

All forms of frenum (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.