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lacertos

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

Found 68 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.37: … ad usum velint, ferre vallum (nam scutum gladium galeam in onere nostri milites non plus numerant quam umeros lacertos manus: arma enim membra militis esse dicunt; quae quidem ita geruntur apte, ut, si usus fuerit, abiectis oner …

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.