clune
Dictionary entries
- Entry →clunis, clunis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Bio/medical
buttock, haunch, hindquarters (vertebrate animals); (also insects/arachnids);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...prurire choro plausuque probatae ad terram tremulo descendant clune puellae, [spectant hoc nuptae iuxta recubante marito quod pudeat..."Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Flacce, subtilem, cujus lacertos anuli mei cingant, quae clune nudo radat et genu pungat, cui serra lumbis, cuspis..."Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...serum est et turpe pilosis, in molli rigidam clune libenter habes. Tu, qui sectarum causas et pondera nosti..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...colligit. Alius pretiosas aves scindit; per pectus et clunes certis ductibus circumferens eruditam manum frusta excutit, infelix..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...pede tendite, cursum addite, convolate planta, femore facili, clune agili et manu procaces, molles, veteres, Deliaci manu recisi..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...pectore adusto vidimus et merulas poni et sine clune palumbis, suavis res, si non causas narraret earum..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...fulta pede est, emptorem inducat hiantem, quod pulcrae clunes, breve quod caput, ardua cervix. hoc illi recte..."