adulteris
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adulterus, adultera, adulterum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
adulterous, unchaste;
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all) - Entry →adulter, adultera, adulterum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
impure/adulterated; mixed/crossbred (plant); adulterous, unchaste; of adulterer;; forged/counterfeit; debased (coinage); [~ clavis => skeleton/false key];
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all) - Entry →adultera, adulterae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
adulteress; mistress; unchaste woman;
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl. - Entry →adulter, adulteri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
adulterer; illicit lover, paramour; offspring of unlawful love, bastard (eccl.);
abl. pl.dat. pl.loc. pl.
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...forum abiit, gloriosus, impudens, stercoreus, plenus periuri atque adulteri. ait sese ultro omnis mulieres sectarier: is deridiculost, quaqua..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...adiciam, et futuros esse. Erunt homicidae, tyranni, fures, adulteri, raptores, sacrilegi, proditores; infra omnia ista ingratus est, nisi..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...videndum est in quo pugna consistat. "Non fuerunt adulteri": "fuerunt"; quaestio: de facto ambigitur, coniectura est. Interim..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...expromitur. [23] In his gregibus omnes aleatores, omnes adulteri, omnes inpuri inpudicique versantur. Hi pueri tam lepidi..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...mulierum. PLUTARCH . . . Sulla . . . was living in lewdness and adultery, as Sallustius says. Idem fecere Octavius et Q. Caepio..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...dictitans; exim Poppaeae coniungitur. ea diu paelex et adulteri Neronis, mox mariti potens, quendam ex ministris Octaviae impulit..."Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...enim proinde a parentibus liberi quam ab impudica adulteri mutantur. nec si Iturius et Calvisius adesis omnibus fortunis..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Vitellius ignaro propior: omnia liberto oboediebant. patefieri domum adulteri atque illuc deduci imperatorem iubet. ac primum in vestibulo..."
