pestem

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

Found 87 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.96: … iniuria, cum pecunias maximas cogeres, per omnis partis provinciae te tamquam aliquam calamitosam tempestatem pestemque pervasisse demonstro.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.39: … em etiam adferat cur aequo animo sibi ferendum sit: Qui álteri exitiúm parat, Eum scíre oportet síbi paratum, péstem ut participét parem. abducet Patricoles, credo, ut conlocet in cubili, ut volnus obliget. siquidem homo esset …

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.