sloping/inclining downwards/downhill/away; steep; shelving
Latin word, found 42 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.88.1: Eius adventu ex colore vestitus cognito, quo insigni in proeliis uti consuerat, turmisque equitum et cohortibus visis quas se sequi iusserat, ut de locis superioribus haec declivia et devexa cernebantur, hostes proelium committunt.
Vergil, Georgics 1.241: consurgit, premitur Libyae devexus in austros.
Vergil, Aeneid 8.280: Devexo interea propior fit Vesper Olympo,
All forms of devexus