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umbris

umbris is a Latin form of umbra, meaning “shadow, shade; ghost”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 131 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.36: … voluerunt; quod Spartiatae etiam in feminas transtulerunt, quae ceteris in urbibus mollissimo cultu parietum umbris occuluntur. illi autem voluerunt nihil horum simile esse ápud Lacaenas vírgines, Quibus mágis palaestra Eurót …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 9.37.11: eam tam claram pugnam trans Ciminiam silvam ad Perusiam pugnatam quidam auctores sunt metuque in magno civitatem fuisse ne interclusus exercitus tam infesto saltu coortis undique Tuscis Umbrisque Vmbrisque opprimeretur.

All forms of umbra (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.