copulas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →copulo, copulare, copulavi, copulatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
connect, join physically, couple; bind/tie together, associate, unite, ally;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →copula, copulae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
string/rope; tie/bond, fastening/clasp; leash/harness; mooring cable; ligament;; friendly/close relationship, bond, intimate connection; (used in grammar);
acc. pl.
Examples
- T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quando illi apud me mecum caput et corpus copulas? ~ AD. Quo die Orcus Acherunte mortuos amiserit. AGOR. Sunt..." - T
Epidicus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...defloccati senes quaeritant me, in manibus gestant copulas secum simul. STR. Habe bonum animum. EP. Quippe ego quoi..." - A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...avidus aeris est. II. Sed in ea copula "e" littera" inquit "detrita est." Item "locupletem" dictum..." - C
Atticus
Cornelius Nepos from LIBER DE LATINIS HISTORICIS
"...esset aemulatio, nulla intercederet obtrectatio essetque talium virorum copula. In re publica ita est versatus, ut semper optimarum..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...superabat retia saltu summaque transibat postarum lina plagarum: copula detrahitur canibus, quas illa sequentes effugit et coetum..."