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militares

militares is a Latin form of militaris, meaning “military, of soldiers, of war; (res militaris) warfare”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or 2nd person singular imperfect active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of milito, “serve as a soldier”.

Found 61 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.30: … d iudicandum severissima, Cn. Tremellius, homo summa religione et diligentia, tres hi homines veteres tribuni militares sunt designati; ex Kalendis Ianuariis non iudicabunt. subsortiemur etiam in M. Metelli locum, quoniam is huic …

Seneca the Younger, De Providentia 4.4: … periculi uirtus et quo tendat, non quid passura sit cogitat, quoniam etiam quod passura est gloriae pars est. Militares uiri gloriantur uulneribus, laeti fluentem meliori casu sanguinem ostentant: idem licet fecerint qui integri …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.6.1: MILITARES coronae multae et variae sunt.

All forms of militaris (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.