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urbium

urbium is a Latin form of urbs, meaning “city; (the City) Rome”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 183 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.23.5: … non est alternis trabibus ac saxis, quae rectis lineis suos ordines servant, tum ad utilitatem et defensionem urbium summam habet opportunitatem, quod et ab incendio lapis et ab ariete materia defendit, quae perpetuis trabibus …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.48.6: … domum reciperet peruenissetque ad summum Cyprium uicum, ubi Dianium nuper fuit, flectenti carpentum dextra in Urbium cliuum ut in collem Esquiliarum eueheretur, restitit pauidus atque inhibuit frenos is qui iumenta agebat iace …

All forms of urbs (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.