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navibus

navibus is a Latin form of navis, meaning “ship”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 556 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.8.4: Helvetii ea spe deiecti navibus iunctis ratibusque compluribus factis, alii vadis Rhodani, qua minima altitudo fluminis erat, non numquam int …

Cicero, De Divinatione 1.67: … sandra, loquitur: iámque mari magnó classis cita téxitur; exitium éxamen rapit; adveniet, fera vélivolantibus návibus complebít manus litora.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 18: … duce ac passim multis sibi quisque imperium petentibus brevi dilabitur. Ex eo numero Medi, Persae et Armenii nauibus in Africam transuecti proximos nostro mari locos occupauere, sed Persae intra Oceanum magis, iique alueos nau …

All forms of navis (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.