cunarum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cuna, cunae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cradle (usu. pl.); nest for young birds; one's earliest years;
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Aule. Miraris pretium tam grave? Surdus erat. XXXIX Cunarum fueras motor, Charideme, mearum et pueri custos assiduusque comes..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...stridore bisulcam, risit, et inludens nostras Tirynthius artes "cunarum labor est angues superare mearum," dixit "et ut vincas..."
