amurcas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →amurca, amurcae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
watery fluid contained in the olive in addition to oil (vs. solid residue);
acc. pl.
Examples
- P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...secundo defluit amni; aut tonsum tristi contingunt corpus amurca et spumas miscent argenti uiuaque sulpura Idaeasque pices..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...medicare serentis et nitro prius et nigra perfundere amurca, grandior ut fetus siliquis fallacibus esset et quamuis igni..."