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litium

litium is a Latin form of lis, meaning “lawsuit; quarrel, dispute”. It is the genitive plural noun.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.97: … uo ex genere mihi testium qui cum isto furati sunt, si uti voluissem, magna copia fuisset; qui ut se periculo litium, coniunctione criminum liberarent, quo ego vellem descensuros pollicebantur.

Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 10.1: Litium series ubique maiorem in modum excreuerant, manentibus antiquis intercapedine iuris dictionis, accedentibus n …

Plautus, Menaechmi 4.2.582: datúm denegánt quod datum ést, litiúm plení, rapaces

All forms of lis (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.