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rura

rura is a Latin form of rus, meaning “the country, farm (rus to the country; ruri in the country)”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 161 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 8.3.1: Repentino adventu Caesaris accidit, quod imparatis disiectisque accidere fuit necesse, ut sine timore ullo rura colentes prius ab equitatu opprimerentur quam confugere in oppida possent.

Vergil, Georgics 2.317: Rura gelu tum claudit hiems nec semine iacto

All forms of rus (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.