calcitrat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →calcitro, calcitrare, calcitravi, calcitratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
kick with heels, kick; be refractory; resist; kick convulsively (dying);
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...merumque vulnere et ore vomens madida resupinus harena calcitrat. ardescunt germani caede bimembres certatimque omnes uno ore "arma..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...postquam cecidit ferrumque ex osse revulsum est calcitrat et positas adspergit sanguine mensas. tum vero indomitas ardescit vulgus..."