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oratorum

oratorum is a Latin form of orator, meaning “speaker, orator; envoy, spokesman”.

It can also be a form of oro, “beg, pray; plead”. It is the perfect passive participle genitive plural neuter or perfect passive participle genitive plural masculine.

Found 121 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro Rege Deiotaro 5: … m in disceptatione versata est dico intra domesticos parietes, dico extra conventum et eam frequentiam in qua oratorum studia niti solent: in tuis oculis, in tuo ore voltuque acquiesco, te unum intueor, ad te unum omnis spectat …

Cicero, De Optimo Genere Oratorum 1: oratorvm genera esse dicuntur tamquam poetarum; id secus est, nam alterum est multiplex. Poematis enim tragici comici …

All forms of orator (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.