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trunci

trunci is a Latin form of truncus, meaning “(noun) trunk (of a tree or body); (adj.) maimed, mutilated”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.17.10: et aliae item supra pontem mediocri spatio, ut, si arborum trunci sive naves deiciendi operis causa essent a barbaris missae, his defensoribus earum rerum vis minueretur neu ponti nocerent.

Martial, Epigrammata 2.83.3: Trunci naribus auribusque voltus.

All forms of truncus (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.