mavis

mavis is a Latin form of malo, meaning “prefer”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 1.23: … lem istius invidiae, si in exsilium iussu consulis iveris, sustinebo. sin autem servire meae laudi et gloriae mavis, egredere cum importuna sceleratorum manu, confer te ad Manlium, concita perditos civis, secerne te a bonis, …

Martial, Epigrammata 3.94.2: Mavis, Rufe, cocum scindere, quam leporem.

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 3.7e.6: … atque is non idem sibi extis portendi diceret, 'ain tu'? inquit, 'uitulinae carunculae quam imperatori ueteri mauis credere'? si uerba numeres, breuiter et abscise, si sensum aestimes, copiose et ualenter: Hispanias enim dere …

All forms of malo (conjugation 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.