pulveris

pulveris is a Latin form of pulvis, meaning “dust, powder”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.26: … ex statione nuntiant magna auxilia equitum peditumque ab rege missa Uticam venire; eodemque tempore vis magna pulveris cernebatur, et vestigio temporis primum agmen erat in conspectu. Novitate rei Curio permotus praemittit equit …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 53: Romani ex improuiso pulueris vim magnam animaduertunt; nam prospectum ager arbustis consitus prohibebat. Et primo rati humum aridam vento …

Lucan, Civil War 8.867: Pulveris exigui sparget non longa vetustas

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.