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rostra

rostra is a Latin form of rostrum, meaning “beak; ship's beak; (rostra) the speaker's platform in the Forum”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun or vocative plural neuter noun or accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 83 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 110: … uinquaginta natus esset? quis eum umquam non modo in patroni sed in lautioris advocati loco viderat? qui quod rostra iam diu vacua locumque illum post adventum L.Lucii Sullae a tribunicia voce desertum oppresserat multitudinem …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 8.14.12: naves Antiatium partim in navalia Romae subductae, partim incensae, rostrisque earum suggestum in foro exstructum adornari placuit, Rostraque id templum appellatum.

All forms of rostrum (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.