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Meaning of ocris | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈɔ.krɪs]

Definitions

a broken, rugged, stony mountain; a crag

Old-Latin, declension-3, masculine

Examples

“ocrem antiqui, ut Ateius Philologus in libro Glosematorum refert, montem confragosum vocabant, ut aput Livium: ocrem is what the ancients, as Ateius the Grammarian relates in his book of glosses, call a rocky mountain, as in Livius: […] sed qui sunt hi, qui ascendunt altum ocrim? […] but who are these men who are climbing the high crag? […] celsosque ocris / arvaque putria et mare magnum […] […] the high crags, / the crumbling earth, and the vast sea […] […] namque Taenari celsos ocris”

[…] for the high crags of Taenarus

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

ocrium octaedra octaedre octaedri octaedricus octaedris

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