conluviones
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conluvio, conluvionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
jumble/heterogeneous mass; fact/state of contamination, impure mixture; turmoil;; muck, decayed matter; refuse/sewage; pig-swill; filth; dregs; cesspool/mire;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...prodiga infrenisque sit, ut fluat semper et aestuet conluvione verborum taeterrima, quod genus homines a Graecis significantissimo vocabulo..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sisti. Mortuis duobus consulibus, iacente aegra civitate, in conluvione omnium rerum, ad tollendum rei publicae consulare imperium laturum..."