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nolis

nolis is a Latin form of nolo, meaning “be unwilling, not wish”. It is the 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

Found 36 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.71: … sunt, ut eorum alia eligenda sint, alia reicienda, alia omnino neglegenda, hoc est, ut eorum alia velis, alia nolis, alia non cures.—At modo dixeras nihil in istis rebus esse, quod interesset.—Et nunc idem dico, inquiet, sed …

Horace, Carmina 2.12.1: Nolis longa ferae bella Numantiae

All forms of nolo (conjugation 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.