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ungue

ungue is a Latin form of unguis, meaning “nail, claw”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 4.46: ungue fovens circum et raras superinice frondes.

Ovid, Amores 3.6.48: Ungue notata comas, ungue notata genas.

All forms of unguis (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.