rates

rates is a Latin form of ratis, meaning “raft; boat, ship”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun or nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun.

Found 148 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.25: … iaciebat, quod his Iocis erat vadosum mare. Longius progressus, cum agger altiore aqua contineri non posset, rates duplices quoquo versus pedum XXX e regione molis collocabat. Has quatenus ancoris ex IIII angulis destinabat, …

All forms of ratis (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.