cereales
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Cerealis, Cerealis, Cereale:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Religion
of/associated with Ceres, suitable for festival of Ceres; of wheat;
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.)
Examples
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...herbam subiciunt epulis (sic Iuppiter ipse monebat) et Cereale solum pomis agrestibus augent. consumptis hic forte aliis..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...intractabilis imbrem; nec non et lini segetem et Cereale papauer tempus humo tegere et iamdudum incumbere aratris..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sperneret et nullos aris adoleret odores; ille etiam Cereale nemus violasse securi dicitur et lucos ferro temerasse vetustos..."