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oris

oris is a Latin form of os, meaning “mouth; face; speech”.

It can also be a form of ora, “shore, coast; edge, border; region”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 363 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 95: … tibi aliqua ex parte quod salva fide possim parcere, rursus immuto voluntatem meam; venit enim mihi in mentem oris tui. Tene, cum ceteri socii tui fugerent ac se occultarent, ut hoc iudicium non de illorum praeda sed de huiu …

Martial, Epigrammata 8.57.4: Oris et aggesta contumulavit humo.

All forms of os (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.