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
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...hasce aedis pultabit senex. PHILOL. Numquid aliud? TR. Clavem mi harunc aedium Laconicam iam iube efferri intus: hasce..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...cellae, meque nihil tale expectantem inclusit, exemitque raptim clavem et ad Gitona investigandum cucurrit. Inclusus ego suspendio vitam..."
