peste

peste is a Latin form of pestis, meaning “plague, pestilence; destruction, curse”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 42 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 1.33: hisce ominibus, Catilina, cum summa rei publicae salute, cum tua peste ac pernicie cumque eorum exitio qui se tecum omni scelere parricidioque iunxerunt, proficiscere ad impium bel …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.20: … íritus: Iam décolorem sánguinem omnem exórbuit. Sic córpus clade horríbili absumptum éxtabuit, Ipse ínligatus péste interimor téxtili. Hos nón hostilis déxtra, non Terra édita Molés Gigantum, nón biformato ímpetu Centaúrus ic …

Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 4.M3.20: Peste soluerit hospitis,

All forms of pestis (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.