amoeno
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amoeno, amoenare, amoenavi, amoenatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
make pleasant (places); please, delight;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st - Entry →amoenum, amoeni:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
pleasant places (pl.);
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →amoenus, amoena -um, amoenior -or -us, amoenissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
beautiful, attractive, pleasant, agreeable, enjoyable, charming, lovely;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...ementientem. I. Ad Herodem Atticum, consularem virum ingenioque amoeno et Graeca facundia celebrem, adiit nobis praesentibus palliatus quispiam..."Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...insinuet se, Ennius ut noster cecinit, qui primus amoeno detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam, per gentis Italas..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...altera Herculanense conueniunt et mare ex aperto reductum amoeno sinu cingunt, consedisse terrae motu uexatis quaecumque adiacebant regionibus..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...discriminibus obiecto tempestiva convivia, circum et theatra et amoenos secessus celebrarent. Postremo quasi perpetraturus bellum, derecta acie..."XVI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...illud exclamet: 'filium meum civitas peregrina sollicitat; ut amoenos nescio cuius recessus orbis petat, debilitati meae subtrahit umeros..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...natum propiore terra non tamen portu retinent amoeno desides Baiae liticenve notus Hectoris armis. torpor est nostris sine..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...membra quietem. huic deus ipse loci fluvio Tiberinus amoeno populeas inter senior se attollere frondes visus (eum tenuis..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...aequore lucum prospicit. hunc inter fluvio Tiberinus amoeno verticibus rapidis et multa flavus harena in mare prorumpit. variae..."
