arenarum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →arena, arenae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sand, grains of sand; sandy land or desert; seashore; arena, place of contest;
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...illius praeside, tutiores latebrae forent, in camporum et arenarum solitudines concessi ac, si defuisset cibus, consilium fuit mortem..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Hispanias iugum extollat: inter Aegyptum et Aethiopias arenarum inculta uastitas iaceat! Si quis formicis det intellectum hominis, nonne..."