hostem

hostem is a Latin form of hostis, meaning “enemy”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 1,096 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.15.2: … agmine proelio nostros lacessere coeperunt. Caesar suos a proelio continebat, ac satis habebat in praesentia hostem rapinis, pabulationibus populationibusque prohibere.

Martial, Epigrammata 2.80.1: Hostem cum fugeret, se Fannius ipse peremit.

All forms of hostis (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.