pestes

pestes is a Latin form of pestis, meaning “plague, pestilence; destruction, curse”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone 33: … e in hoc pervagato civitatis sermone versantur, quas ille leges, si leges nominandae sunt ac non faces urbis, pestes rei publicae, fuerit impositurus nobis omnibus atque inusturus? exhibe, exhibe, quaeso, Sexte Clodi, librariu …

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.25: Sic me ípse viduus péstes excipio ánxias Amóre mortis términum anquiréns mali; Sed lónge a leto númine aspellór Iovis, Atque haéc vetus …

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.