truces

truces is a Latin form of trux, meaning “fierce, savage, harsh”. It is the accusative plural masculine adjective or accusative plural feminine adjective or nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective.

Found 80 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.477: Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas:

Tacitus, Annales 1·29: … sus castra Germanicus, non medicinam illud plurimis cum lacrimis sed cladem appellans, cremari corpora iubet. Truces etiam tum animos cupido involat eundi in hostem, piaculum furoris; nec aliter posse placari commilitonum mani …

All forms of trux (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.