metu

metu is a Latin form of metus, meaning “fear”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,128 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.4.6: qui de Germanorum discessu per exploratores certiores facti sine metu trans Rhenum in suos vicos remigraverant.

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.4.13: Metu turbatus in suo sedit loco.

Plautus, Casina 3.5.665: metú mussitánt.

All forms of metus (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.