principiis

principiis is a Latin form of principium, meaning “beginning, origin; (principio) in the first place, at first”. It is the ablative plural neuter noun or dative plural neuter noun.

Found 125 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 11: … ianici detulisse, paulo longius exordium rei demonstrandae petam; quod quaeso, iudices, ne moleste patiamini; principiis enim cognitis multo facilius extrema intellegetis. A.Aulus Cluentius habitus fuit, pater huiusce, iudices, ho …

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.18: Principiis autem a natura datis amplitudines quaedam bonorum excitabantur partim profectae a contemplatione rerum occult …

All forms of principium (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.