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nervo

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

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 4.313: erupere aut ut nervo pulsante sagittae,

Livy, Ab urbe condita 6.11.8: et non contentus agrariis legibus, quae materia semper tribunis plebi seditionum fuisset, fidem moliri coepit: acriores quippe aeris alieni stimulos esse, qui non egestatem modo atque ignominiam minentur sed neruo ac uinculis corpus liberum territent.

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.