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iocis

iocis is a Latin form of iocus, meaning “joke, jest; game”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.25: … ratio. Qua fauces erant angustissimae portus, moles atque aggerem ab utraque parte litoris iaciebat, quod his Iocis erat vadosum mare. Longius progressus, cum agger altiore aqua contineri non posset, rates duplices quoquo ver …

Cicero, Philippicae 2.39: … es cuius me amicum, te sectorem esse fateare? sed omittatur bellum illud in quo tu nimium felix fuisti. ne de iocis quidem respondebo quibus me in castris usum esse dixisti: erant quidem illa castra plena curae; verum tamen h …

All forms of iocus (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.