lapis
noun
stone (used in Latin names for minerals, gems, etc.)
lapides
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pluralof lapis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the lapides were probably of volcanic origin.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the indiscreet and curious:— "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque."
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Modern civilization owes its universities to the Catholic Church, as the very stones of Cambridge and Oxford still proclaim . . . lapides clamabunt!
From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly
Upon that hill the enemy of hell bare our Lord and tempted him, and said, Dic ut lapides isti panes fiant; that is to say, ‘Say, that these stones be made loaves.’
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
Upon that hille, the enemy of helle bare our Lord, and tempted him, and seyde; Dic ut lapides isti panes fiant; that is to seye, Sey, that theise stones be made loves.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt
