arcum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →arca, arcae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
box, chest; strong-box, coffer; wealth, money; coffin, bier; cell, cage; ark;; ark (Noah's); Ark of the Covenant;; quadrangular landmark for surveyors;
gen. pl. - Entry →arcs, arcis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
citadel, stronghold; height; the Capitoline hill Rome; defense, refuge;; citadel, stronghold, city; height, hilltop; Capitoline hill; defense, refuge;
gen. pl. - Entry →arcus, arcus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bow, arc, coil, arch; rainbow; anything arched or curved;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
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Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...ipsam configite matrem' Amphion clamat, sed Paean contrahit arcum. extulit ergo greges natorum ipsumque parentem, dum sibi nobilior..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...minor non fit. Si in Parthia natus esset, arcum infans statim tenderet; si in Germania, protinus puer tenerum..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...umbram, et sic utriusque intercursu effici arcum, in quo pars fulgeat, quae solem recipit, pars obscurior sit, quae..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...adleuataque super caput sinistra manu stare. Tunc intendit arcum et ipsum cor adulescentis (id enim petere se dixerat..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...foro esset erepta quodque a rostris usque ad arcum Fabianum per seditiosae factionis manus traditus uoces inprobas..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...amare possit Hercules. rigidas manus intende et arcum cornibus iunctis para. nunc, nunc sagittam prome qua quondam horridus..." - L
[Proverbs]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...Scire uti felicitate maxima felicitas est. 138. Arcum intentio frangit, animum remissio. 139. Numquam scelus scelere vindicandum..." - T
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...adversus venerit. egomet autem quom extemplo arcum [mihi] et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero, cassidem in caput, dormibo placide..."
