corticis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cortex, corticis:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
bark; cork; skin, rind, husk, hull; outer covering, shell, carapace, chrysalis;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Alter ponendi modus hic fuit: ramos fortes nec corticis duri, quales esse novellarum arborum solent, eodem genere deposuit..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...XXXV. non in sermone contendunt, cum, sive "amarae corticis" seu "medio cortice" per genus facit soloecismum (quorum neutrum..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...trahit Aea Batarnas, quos duce Teutagono crudi mora corticis armat aequaque nec ferro brevior nec rumpia ligno..."Ecloga VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...miratam mala puellam; tum Phaethontiadas musco circundat amarae corticis, atque solo proceras erigit alnos. Tum canit, errantem Permessi..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Pontius Cominus impiger iuvenis operam pollicitus, incubans cortici secundo Tiberi ad urbem defertur. Inde qua proximum fuit..."