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English
Noun
plebes
- plural of plebe
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
plēbēs f (variously declined, genitive plēbeī or plēbis); fifth declension, third declension
- Alternative form of plēbs
Declension
Fifth-declension noun or third-declension noun (i-stem).
Noun
plēbēs
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of plēbs
References
- “plebes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “plebes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- plebes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- plebes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the dregs of the people: faex populi, plebis, civitatis
- (ambiguous) a demagogue, agitator: plebis dux, vulgi turbator, civis turbulentus, civis rerum novarum cupidus
- (ambiguous) the plebeian tribunes, whose persons are inviolable: tribuni plebis sacrosancti (Liv. 3. 19. 10)
- (ambiguous) to appeal to the plebeian tribunes against a praetor's decision: appellare tribunos plebis (in aliqua re a praetore) (Liv. 2. 55)
- “plebes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Noun
plebes
- plural of plebe
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplebes/
- Rhymes: -ebes
- Syllabification: ple‧bes
Noun
plebes
- plural of plebe