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laqueis

laqueis is a Latin form of laqueus, meaning “noose, snare, trap”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.22.2: Nam et laqueis falces avertebant, quas, cum destinaverant, tormentis introrsus reducebant, et aggerem cuniculis subtrahebant, eo scientius quod apud eos magnae sunt ferrariae atque omne genus cuniculorum notum atque usitatum est.

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.27: … constituit, modo pauxillum de ea potione largiri sibi vellet ob incepti negotii persecutionem. Quid pluribus? Laqueis fraudium pessimarum uxor inducta medici facile consensit, et quo se gratiorem locupleti feminae faceret, prop …

All forms of laqueus (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.