cultello
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cultello, cultellare, cultellavi, cultellatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Science
measure horizontal distances over rough ground with vertical rods;; make in shape of a knife; level ground by the coulter (vertical blade on plow);
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st - Entry →cultellus, cultelli:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
little/small knife; peg/pin; dagger (Bee);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Satura V
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...indignatio desit, saltantem spectes et chironomunta uolanti cultello, donec peragat dictata magistri omnia; nec minimo sane discrimine refert..."Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...facies videret. Cum par quoddam mutuis ictibus concidisset, cultellos sibi paruulos ex utroque ferro in usum fieri sine..."
