culmi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →culmus, culmi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
stalk, stem (of cereal grass/others); hay; straw; thatch;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...iacebant. nam neque congestae struxere cubilia frondes nec culmis creuere tori, sed corpora fatis expositi uoluuntur humo, calidoque..."Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ueluti circumdatus artaopsidione, famem. nondum turgentibus altamin segetem culmis cernit miserabile uolgus 110in pecudum cecidisse cibos et carpere..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...flumina limo. aegra solo macies, tenerique in origine culmi inclinata seges, deceptum margine ripae stat pecus, atque amnes..."Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...exuberet annus aut fetu pecorum aut Cerealis mergite culmi, prouentuque oneret sulcos atque horrea uincat. uenit hiems: teritur..."