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
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...bubulae frustum, super geminos testiculos ac rienes, super cancrum coronam, super leonem ficum Africanam, super virginem steriliculam, super..."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..."