hostes

hostes is a Latin form of hostis, meaning “enemy”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or accusative plural masculine noun.

Found 1,033 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.15.1: … quem ex omni provincia et Haeduis atque eorum sociis coactum habebat, praemittit, qui videant quas in partes hostes iter faciant. Qui cupidius novissimum agmen insecuti alieno loco cum equitatu Helvetiorum proelium committunt …

Plautus, Amphitruo 1.1.222: légiones, item hóstes contra légiones suas ínstruont.

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.