sinistro

sinistro is a Latin form of sinister, meaning “left, on the left; unlucky; wrong; (sinistra) left hand”. It is the ablative singular neuter adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective or dative singular neuter adjective or dative singular masculine adjective.

Found 86 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.52.6: Cum hostium acies a sinistro cornu pulsa atque in fugam coniecta esset, a dextro cornu vehementer multitudine suorum nostram aciem premebant.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.69: … in fossas praecipitabant, primisque oppressis reliqui per horum corpora salutem sibi atque exitum pariebant. Sinistro cornu milites, cum ex vallo Pompeium adesse et suos fugere cernerent, veriti, ne angustiis intercluderentur, …

All forms of sinister (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.