almus
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;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- T
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...minora corpora sunt quam de quibus est liquor almus aquarum? et quamvis subito per colum vina videmus perfluere..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...canoris, et Venerem certis repetunt armenta diebus; parturit almus ager Zephyrique tepentibus auris laxant arua sinus; superat tener..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...delectat agrestes; omnia tunc florent, florumque coloribus almus ludit ager, neque adhuc virtus in frondibus ulla est. transit..."