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monstris

monstris is a Latin form of monstrum, meaning “portent, omen; monster”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.5: … religio in sacra et in auspicia divisa sit, tertium adiunctum sit si quid praedictionis causa ex portentis et monstris Sibyllae interpretes haruspicesve monuerunt, harum ego religionum nullam umquam contemnendam putavi mihique i …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.488: solque locum fugit. Monstris exterrita coniunx,

All forms of monstrum (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.