preces

preces is a Latin form of prex, meaning “prayer, request, entreaty (usually pl. preces)”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 341 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.42: Curio, ubi perterritis omnibus neque cohortationes suas neque preces audiri intellegit, unam ut in miseris rebus spem reliquam salutis esse arbitratus, proximos colles capere uni …

Martial, Epigrammata 4.81.4: Preces amantis. Iam, Fabulla, promitte:

Plautus, Rudens 1.5.259: Qui súnt qui a patróna precés mea expetéssunt?

All forms of prex (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.