curvator
Dictionary entries
- Entry →curvo, curvare, curvavi, curvatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bend/arch, make curved/bent; form a curve; make stoop/bow/yield; influence;
sg. fut. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. imp. 3rd
Examples
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...respondeant. Lege Ciceronem: compositio eius una est, pedem curvat lenta et sine infamia mollis. At contra Pollionis Asinii..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iterque non agit in rectum, sed in orbem curvat eundem: ut volucris visis rapidissima miluus extis, dum timet..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...conviva reponet. Umber et iligna nutritus glande rotundas curvat aper lances carnem vitantis inertem; nam Laurens malus..."