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hastis

hastis is a Latin form of hasta, meaning “spear”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 82 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 19: … r, si ad centesimum annum vixisset, senectutis eum suae paeniteret? nec enim excursione nec saltu, nec eminus hastis aut comminus gladiis uteretur, sed consilio ratione sententia, quae nisi essent in senibus, non summum consil …

Plautus, Mostellaria 1.2.152: dísco, hastís, pila, cúrsu, armís, equo

All forms of hasta (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.