clunem
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);
acc. sg.
Examples
Satura II
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...talia uerbis Herculis inuadunt et de uirtute locuti clunem agitant. 'ego te ceuentem, Sexte, uerebor?' infamis Varillus..."Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...homines, mora nulla per ipsam quo minus inposito clunem summittat asello. atque utinam ritus ueteres et publica saltem..."
