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gurgitis

gurgitis is a Latin form of gurges, meaning “whirlpool; abyss; flood, sea”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 44: … etur, nulli sumptus, nullum aes alienum, nulla conviviorum ac lustrorum libido. quod quidem vitium ventris et gurgitis non modo non minuit aetas hominibus sed etiam auget. amores autem et deliciae quae vocantur, quae firmiore an …

Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.266: Gurgitis aut Fabii, quae ludia sumpserit umquam

All forms of gurges (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.