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stellis

stellis is a Latin form of stella, meaning “star”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.22: … lesio primum esse tornatam, post autem ab Eudoxo Cnidio, discipulo, ut ferebat, Platonis, eandem illam astris stellisque, quae caelo inhaererent, esse descriptam; cuius omnem ornatum et descriptionem sumptam ab Eudoxo multis an …

Seneca the Younger, Naturales Quaestiones 7.12.8: … as spatium confunderetur, aeque cito dilaberetur; utique non in tantum maneret quantum morari cometae solent. Stellis intra signiferum cursus est, hunc premunt gyrum. At cometae ubique cernuntur: non magis certum est illis temp …

All forms of stella (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.