cacuminate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cacumino, cacuminare, cacuminavi, cacuminatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
make pointed or tapered; sharpen;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ostendens confectas flamma Latinas 550scinditur in partes geminoque cacumine surgitThebanos imitata rogos. tum cardine tellussubsedit, ueteremque iugis nutantibus..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...opinio refellitur, quod quidam fontes in summo montis cacumine redundant: apparet illos sursum agi aut ibi concipi..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...lateret, aetatem inter experimenta consumpsit Eudoxos quidem in cacumine excelsissimi montis consenuit ut astrorum caelique motus deprehenderet..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...compello meis++hoc turba precaturlaetior: extremo me tange cacumine virgae,sufficit, aut leviter suspenso poplite transi. V. EPICEDION..."Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...lacus; quae robore ab imoincurvata vadis redit inde cacumine rectoardua, ceu mediis iterum nascatur ab undisatque habitet vitreum..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...phaselus: ultima ex origine tuo stetisse dicit in cacumine, tuo imbuisse palmulas in aequore, et inde..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...suae conplevit saecula vitae, ilicet in ramis tremulaeque cacumine palmae unguibus et puro nidum sibi construit..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...horrida caesaries fieri sumptoque rigore sidereum gracili spectare cacumine caelum. ingemuit tristisque deus 'lugebere nobis lugebisque alios aderisque..."