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sidera

sidera is a Latin form of sidus, meaning “star, constellation; heavenly body”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 466 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.15: … em in hoc templo medium vides, quae terra dicitur, iisque animus datus est ex illis sempiternis ignibus, quae sidera et stellas vocatis, quae globosae et rotundae, divinis animatae mentibus, circulos suos orbesque conficiunt c …

Vergil, Eclogues 5.43: DAPHNIS EGO IN SILVIS HINC VSQUE AD SIDERA NOTVS

Ovid, Heroides 2.124: Sidera, prospicio, quis freta ventus agat;

All forms of sidus (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.