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nervos

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

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.21.4: maximam inter suos ferunt laudem: hoc ali staturam, ali vires nervosque confirmari putant.

Livy, Ab urbe condita 7.39.6: haec qui in castris erant occultis sermonibus serunt, neruos coniurationis electos arte consulis cernentes.

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.