litteras

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

Found 1,136 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.26.6: Caesar ad Lingonas litteras nuntiosque misit, ne eos frumento neve alia re iuvarent: qui si iuvissent, se eodem loco quo Helvetios habiturum. Ipse triduo intermisso cum omnibus copiis eos sequi coepit.

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 76: … uspicio reperta erit, culpam inesse concedam. Romae Sex. Roscius occiditur, cum in agro Amerino esset filius. Litteras, credo, misit alicui sicario qui Romae noverat neminem. arcessivit aliquem. quem aut quando? nuntium misit. q …

Plautus, Bacchides 4.9.991: Eúge litterás minutas.

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.