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oras

oras is a Latin form of oro, meaning “beg, pray; plead”.

It can also be a form of ora, “shore, coast; edge, border; region”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 167 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 23: … quae per animos gentium barbararum pervaserat, fani locupletissimi et religiosissimi diripiendi causa in eas oras nostrum esse exercitum adductum. ita nationes multae atque magnae novo quodam terrore ac metu concitabantur. …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.76.5: Oras, Gallice, me rogasque semper.

All forms of oro (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.