litterae

litterae is a Latin form of littera, meaning “letter (of the alphabet); (pl.) letter, literature”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 495 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.40.1: Mittuntur ad Caesarem confestim ab Cicerone litterae magnis propositis praemiis, si pertulissent: obsessis omnibus viis missi intercipiuntur.

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.41: … i, sed etiam absentis. Diodorus Romae sordidatus circum patronos atque hospites cursare, rem omnibus narrare. Litterae mittuntur isti a patre vehementes, ab amicis item, videret quid ageret de Diodoro, quo progrederetur; rem cla …

All forms of littera (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.