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
- D
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..." - G
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..."
