almam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →almus, alma, almum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
nourishing, kind, propitious; of a nurse/breast, providing nurture, fostering;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Tace parumper. iacit volturios quattuor. talos arripio, invoco almam meam nutricem Herculem, iacto basilicum; propino magnum poclum: ille..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...manis perferre sub imos.' Aurora interea miseris mortalibus almam extulerat lucem referens opera atque labores: iam pater Aeneas..."