anguilla
Dictionary entries
- Entry →anguilla, anguillae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
eel; hard skin of an eel used as a whip in school; slippery fellow;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...carcere pinnas, contemnunt mediam temeraria lina Charybdim: uos anguilla manet longae cognata colubrae aut ~glacie aspersus~ maculis Tiberinus..." Liber XII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Iani mense nec alget holus, Quaeque natat clusis anguilla domestica lymphis, Quaeque gerit similes candida turris aves, Munera..."- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...pisces in illo terrarum profundo sit indicium, quod anguillae latebrosis locis nascuntur, grauis et ipsae cibus ob ignauiam..."