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vultu

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

Found 499 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 1.1.21: … minis amplissimi nova gratulatio commovebat. cupiebam dissimulare me id moleste ferre, cupiebam animi dolorem vultu tegere et taciturnitate celare. ecce autem illis ipsis diebus, cum praetores designati sortirentur et M. Mete …

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 34: … , regem tacere iubet, ac tametsi multitudo, quae in contione aderat, vehementer accensa terrebat eum clamore, uultu, saepe impetu atque aliis omnibus, quae ira fieri amat, vicit tamen impudentia. Ita populus ludibrio habitus …

Lucan, Civil War 2.509: Constitit ante pedes. Vultu tamen alta minaci

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.