principes

principes

1. plural of princeps

• Audio:

  (file)

principes

1. plural of principe

• Audio:

  (file)

principes m

1. plural of principe

prī̆ncipēs m pl (genitive prī̆ncipum); third declension

1. (military, plural only) the second line of the Roman army (between the first line of the hastātī and the triāriī in third and last)
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.23:

     Ab Romanis nec opus intermissum—triarii erant, qui muniebant—et ab hastatis principibusque, qui pro munitoribus intenti armatique steterunt, proelium initum.

     The works were not set aside by the Romans—triarii where there to fend off the enemy—and a fight broke out led by the hastati and principes, eager and fully-equiped, who had been placed before the workers.

Third-declension noun, plural only.

prī̆ncipēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative masculine/feminine plural of prī̆nceps

prī̆ncipēs m or f

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of prī̆nceps (“leader”)

• “principes”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

principes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of principar