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..."- P
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..."
