arrectas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →arrigo, arrigere, arrexi, arrectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
set upright, tilt upwards, stand on end, raise; become sexually excited/aroused;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →arrectus, arrecta -um, arrectior -or -us, arrectissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis (Elementary)
erect, perpendicular, upright, standing; steep, precipitous; excited, eager;
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...torquens lumina praecipites excussit ab ubere natos. ilicet arrectae mentes evictaque matrum corda sacer Veneris gemitus rapit. aequora..."- P
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...campis. extemplo turbati animi concussaque vulgi pectora et arrectae stimulis haud mollibus irae. arma manu trepidi poscunt, fremit..." - P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...exspectant signum, exsultantiaque haurit corda pavor pulsans laudumque arrecta cupido. inde ubi clara dedit sonitum tuba, finibus omnes..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...Lepidi satellites. Praeterea Etruria atque omnes reliquiae belli arrectae, Hispaniae armis sollicitae, Mithridates in latere vectigalium nostrorum quibus..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Lepidus et L. Piso et Livineius Regulus adfuere, arrecta omni civitate, quanta fides amicis Germanici, quae fiducia..."