cancrum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cancer, cancri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
crab; Cancer (zodiac); the_South; summer heat; cancer, disease, tumor, canker;; lattice, grid; barrier;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...omnia sidera, quae nunc diuersos agunt cursus, in Cancrum conuenerint, sic sub eodem posita uestigio, ut recta linea..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...bubulae frustum, super geminos testiculos ac rienes, super cancrum coronam, super leonem ficum Africanam, super virginem steriliculam, super..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...curvantem bracchia longo Scorpion atque aliter curvantem bracchia Cancrum. nec tibi quadripedes animosos ignibus illis, quos in pectore..."