metum

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

Found 418 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.19.4: … aesar comperit, omnibus iis rebus confectis, quarum rerum causa exercitum traducere constituerat, ut Germanis metum iniceret, ut Sugambros ulcisceretur, ut Ubios obsidione liberaret, diebus omnino XVIII trans Rhenum consumpti …

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.152: … us, C. Gallus senator; postulavit ab L. Metello ut ex edicto suo iudicium daret in Apronium, qvod per vim avt metvm abstvlisset, quam formulam Octavianam et Romae Metellus habuerat et habebat in provincia. non impetrat, cum h …

Vergil, Georgics 3.552: pallida Tisiphone Morbos agit ante Metumque,

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.