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voltu

voltu is a Latin form of vultus, meaning “face, expression, looks”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 97 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 37: … quo uno maleficio scelera omnia complexa esse videantur! etenim si, id quod praeclare a sapientibus dicitur, voltu saepe laeditur pietas, quod supplicium satis acre reperietur in eum qui mortem obtulerit parenti? pro quo mor …

Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.61.6: idem habitus oris, eadem contumacia in uoltu, idem in oratione spiritus erat, adeo ut magna pars plebis Appium non minus reum timeret quam consulem timuerat.

All forms of vultus (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.