arandos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aro, arare, aravi, aratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
plow, till, cultivate; produce by plowing, grow; furrow, wrinkle;
acc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...terra et cui putre solum (namque hoc imitamur arando), optima frumentis: non ullo ex aequore cernes plura domum..."Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...nomen emat. quaerat avarus opes et, quae lassarit arando, aequora periuro naufragus ore bibat. at mihi contingat Veneris..."