fauces – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of fauces

Noun: fauces
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Pluralfaucēs

Genitive

Pluralfaucium

Dative

Pluralfaucibus

Accusative

Pluralfaucēs; faucīs

Ablative

Pluralfaucibus

Vocative

Pluralfaucēs

Sample Sentences

  • Et tamen omnibus hominibus contrā serpentēs inest venēnum: ferunt ictum salīvae ut ferventis aquae contāctum fugere; quod sī in faucēs penetrāverit, etiam morī, idque maximē hūmānī iēiūnī ōris. (And still all people have a venom against snakes: they say that they avoid the attack of saliva like the touch of boiling water; and if it makes its way into the throat, they also die, and most of all in the case of that of a fasted human mouth.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 7.2.15]
  • Castra sunt in Italiā contrā populum Rōmānum in Etrūriae faucibus conlocāta,[…]. (A camp has been established in Italy, set against the Roman people, in the passageway of Etruria.) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.5]
  • Inde ubi venere ad fauces grave olentis Averni (Till over foul Avernus’ sulphurous throat) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 6.201]

Nouns inflected like fauces

volantes, antes, fauces, lactes, tusses,

Etymology

Plural of faux, of unknown etymology.

Verbs referencing "fauces"

Galician Nouns larafouzas.

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