usu

usu is a Latin form of usus, meaning “use, practice, experience”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 514 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.30.2: intellegere sese, tametsi pro veteribus Helvetiorum iniuriis populi Romani ab his poenas bello repetisset, tamen eam rem non minus ex usu [terrae] Galliae quam populi Romani accidisse,

Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 84: … eribus hereditates lege non veniunt? in manum, inquit, convenerat. nunc audio; sed quaero, usu an coemptione? Vsu non potuit; nihil enim potest de tutela legitima nisi omnium tutorum auctoritate deminui. coemptione? omnibus …

Phaedrus, Fabulae 3.3.1: Usu peritus hariolo vel doctior

All forms of usus (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.