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villis

villis is a Latin form of villa, meaning “country house, farm, estate”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or dative plural feminine noun.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.58: … la vero eius cupiditas incredibilis est. nam ut in singula conclavia, quae iste non modo Romae sed in omnibus villis habet, tricenos lectos optime stratos cum ceteris ornamentis convivi quaereret, nimium multa comparare videre …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.3: plerosque palantes eques circumuenit, nec aduenienti peditum agmini restitit Sabina legio. fessi cum itinere tum populatione nocturna, magna pars in uillis repleti cibo uinoque, uix fugae quod satis esset uirium habuere.

All forms of villa (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.