cinctus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cinctus, cincta, cinctum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surrounded/encircled; surrounded (by friends/people/enemy); bordered, enclosed;; having one's dress girt in special way; fastened round; [w/alte => for action];
nom. sg. (m.) - Entry →cingo, cingere, cinxi, cinctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surround/encircle/ring; enclose; beleaguer; accompany; gird, equip; ring (tree);
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →cinctus, cinctus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
girdle, method of girding clothes; crown/garland; belt;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...decrescit, adcrescit labor; nam iam quasi zona liene cinctus ambulo, geminos in ventre habere videor filios. nil metuo..."Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...Gallo turpiter spoliari. Scuto pedestri et gladio Hispanico cinctus contra Gallum constitit. XV. Metu magno ea congressio..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...mutare ripas: alueo medius tuo, Phlegethon, relinquar igneo cinctus freto. Quicumque poenas lege fatorum datas pati iuberis, quisquis..."Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...releuemus artus.—En deos tandem suos uictrice lauru cinctus Agamemnon adit, et festa coniunx obuios illi tulit gressus..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...flammas pascat et placet deos, cana rigentem populo cinctus comam. ipsa ad penates regios gressus feram precibusque Amoris..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...mecum," capulum gladii crebro verberans, quo cinctus erat. Edixit et reverti se, sed iis tantum qui optarent, equestri..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...atque fusum est: "non enim corona consessus vester cinctus est, ut solebat." LI. Quod notavi ut appareret..."
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...iuuat aurea morsu fibula pendentis circum latera aspera cinctus, uaginaeque sonum tremulumque audire pharetrae murmur et a cono..."
