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lacertis

lacertis is a Latin form of lacertus, meaning “upper arm, arm; (pl.) strength”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of lacerta, “lizard”.

Found 112 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 27: … m sunt. non vero tam isti, quam tu ipse, nugator, neque enim ex te umquam es nobilitatus, sed ex lateribus et lacertis tuis. nihil Sex. Aelius tale, nihil multis annis ante Ti. Coruncanius, nihil modo P. Crassus, a quibus iura c …

All forms of lacertus (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.