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instinctu

instinctu is a Latin form of instinctus, meaning “inspiration; instigation”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.64: … t inlustriora carere vi divina videntur, ut ego aut poëtam grave plenumque carmen sine caelesti aliquo mentis instinctu putem fundere, aut eloquentiam sine maiore quadam vi fluere abundantem sonantibus verbis uberibusque sententi …

All forms of instinctus (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.