principes

principes is a Latin form of princeps, meaning “leading man, chief; first; emperor”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or accusative plural masculine noun or nominative plural masculine noun or accusative plural masculine adjective.

Found 440 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.30.1: Bello Helvetiorum confecto totius fere Galliae legati, principes civitatum, ad Caesarem gratulatum convenerunt:

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.35: … num in duas partes; neque sui iudicii neque suarum esse virium discernere, utra pars iustiorem habeat causam. Principes vero esse earum partium Cn. Pompeium et C. Caesarem patronos civitatis; quorum alter agros Volcarum Arecomico …

All forms of princeps (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.