culmus
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;
nom. sg.
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...magnis erat. Sub his tectis habitavere [sed] securi: culmus liberos texit, sub marmore atque auro servitus habitat..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...arentia temperat arua. quid qui, ne grauidis procumbat culmus aristis, luxuriem segetum tenera depascit in herba, cum primum..."