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ture

ture is a Latin form of tus, meaning “incense, frankincense”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 44 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.77: … as et virgines convenisse cum Diana exportaretur ex oppido, unxisse unguentis, complesse coronis et floribus, ture, odoribus incensis usque ad agri finis prosecutas esse?

Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.636: Ture dato flammis vinoque in tura profuso

All forms of tus (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.