tabe

tabe is a Latin form of tabes, meaning “wasting away; decay; putrefaction”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of tabeo, “rot away, decay; waste away”.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 6.442: Hic, quos durus amor crudeli tabe peredit,

Lucan, Civil War 8.778: Tabe fovens bustum. Sed iam percusserat astra

All forms of tabes (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.