pectora

pectora is a Latin form of pectus, meaning “chest, heart, mind”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 610 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.64: iusto quidem rege cum est populus orbatus, pectora diu tenet desiderium, sicut ait Ennius, post optimi regis obitum; simul inter Sese sic memorant: o Romule, Ro …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.22: O péctora, o terga, ó lacertorúm tori, Vestróne pressu quóndam Nemeaeús leo Frendéns efflavit gráviter extremum hálitum …

Ovid, Amores 3.5.39: Pectora quod rostro cornix fodiebat acuto,

All forms of pectus (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.