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volucrum

volucrum is a Latin form of volucris, meaning “winged, flying; swift; (noun) bird”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Aeneid 3.216: Virginei volucrum voltus, foedissima ventris

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 13.2: ut quidem uni suppliciter sepulturam precanti respondisse dicitur iam istam uolucrum fore potestatem; alios, patrem et filium, pro uita rogantis sortiri uel micare iussisse, ut alterutri concede …

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.4.9: Volucrum enim ferarumque etiam alieni mundi genera multa sculpentes, ut ad aevi quoque sequentis aetates, impetratorum vulgatius perveniret memoria, promissa vel soluta regum vota monstrabant.

All forms of volucris (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.