verticibus

verticibus is a Latin form of vertex, meaning “whirlpool; top, summit; crown of the head”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun.

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 6.21: … dem terram quasi quibusdam redimitam et circumdatam cingulis, e quibus duos maxime inter se diversos et caeli verticibus ipsis ex utraque parte subnixos obriguisse pruina vides, medium autem illum et maximum solis ardore torreri. …

Silius Italicus, Punica 1.592: uerticibus torquet rapidis mare, fractaque anhelant

All forms of vertex (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.