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rebus

rebus is a Latin form of res, meaning “thing, matter, affair; fact; property”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 3,500 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.2.4: His rebus fiebat ut et minus late vagarentur et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent;

Cicero, De Officiis 3.82: … fortasse, sed tamen, ut res possit intellegi: Nam sí violandum est Iús, regnandi grátia Violándum est; aliis rébus pietatém colas. Capitalis Eteocles vel potius Euripides, qui id unum, quod omnum sceleratissimum fuerit, exce …

Tacitus, Annales 1·160: … i exanimari; adiacere corpora hominum quos vulnera, quos sitis peremerat; pollui cuncta sanie odore contactu. Rebusque turbatis malum extremum discordia accessit, his deditionem aliis mortem et mutuos inter se ictus parantibu …

All forms of res (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.