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parietibus

parietibus is a Latin form of paries, meaning “wall (of a house)”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 67 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.9: … m passum est, laterculo adstruxerunt supraque cum locum duo tigna transversa iniecerunt non longe ab extremis parietibus, quibus suspenderent eam contignationem, quae turri tegimento esset futura, supraque ea tigna directo transve …

Vitruvius, On Architecture 8.6.15: Parietibus calcatis, in medio quod erit terrenum, exinaniatur ad libramentum infimum parietum. hoc exaequato solum calce …

All forms of paries (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.