cloaca
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cloaco, cloacare, cloacavi, cloacatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
daub; stain, pollute; soil; "smear";
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →cloaca, cloacae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sewer, underground drain; maw of voracious person; privy (medieval);
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...maculis Tiberinus et ipse uernula riparum, pinguis torrente cloaca et solitus mediae cryptam penetrare Suburae. ipsi pauca uelim..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...incidisses, valde fortis licet tibi videaris, maluisses cloacas Augeae purgare: multo plus ego stercoris exhausi. "Sed quoniam volo..." - G
De grammaticis
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius)
"...ipsam Ennii mortem, cum regione Palatii prolapsus in cloacae foramen crus fregisset, per omne legationis simul et valitudinis..." - T
Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...pecunia, lacus sternendos lapide, detergendasque, qua opus esset, cloacas, in Auentino et in aliis partibus, qua nondum erant..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...vacuo aedificant. Ea est causa ut veteres cloacae, primo per publicum ductae, nunc privata passim subeant tecta, formaque..." - G
Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...spatium omne porrigitur nomine quidem flumen, re vera cloaca foedissima, ac sicut turpis immundissimo aspectu, ita pestilens odore..."