clavem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →clavo, clavare, -, clavatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
nail, furnish/fasten with nails; furnish with points/prickles or purple stripe;
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st - Entry →claves, clavis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
door-key; bar/key for turning a press, lever; hook for bowling a hoop;
acc. sg.
Examples
- T
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hasce aedis pultabit senex. PHILOL. Numquid aliud? TR. Clavem mi harunc aedium Laconicam iam iube efferri intus: hasce..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...greges saginaret. Quid ais? philosophia homines docuit habere clavem et seram? Quid aliud erat avaritiae signum dare? Philosophia..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...cellae, meque nihil tale expectantem inclusit, exemitque raptim clavem et ad Gitona investigandum cucurrit. Inclusus ego suspendio vitam..."