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pulvere

pulvere is a Latin form of pulvis, meaning “dust, powder”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 198 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.50: quem enim ardorem studii censetis fuisse in Archimede, qui dum in pulvere quaedam describit attentius, ne patriam quidem captam esse senserit? quantum Aristoxeni ingenium consumptum v …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.529: Pulvere canitiem genitor vultusque seniles

Propertius, Elegiae 4.2.41: sirpiculis medio puluere ferre rosam.

All forms of pulvis (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.