nervi

nervi is a Latin form of nervus, meaning “sinew, muscle; string (of a bow or lyre); (pl.) strength, vigor”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun or vocative plural masculine noun or genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.389: detectique patent nervi, trepidaeque sine ulla

Livy, Ab urbe condita 21.40.9: effigies immo, umbrae hominum, fame, frigore, inluuie, squalore enecti, contusi ac debilitati inter saxa rupesque; ad hoc praeusti artus, niue rigentes nerui, membra torrida gelu, quassata fractaque arma, claudi ac debiles equi.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.2.14: Inter hos Nervi mediterranea incolunt loca, vicini verticibus celsis, quos praeruptos geluque torpentes, aquilones adstringun …

All forms of nervus (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.