echinus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →echinus, echini:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
edible sea-urchin; copper dish;
nom. sg.
Examples
Liber XIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...licet digitos testudine pungat acuta, cortice deposita mollis echinus erit. LXXXVII. Murices. Sanguine de nostro tinctas, ingrate, lacernas..."- Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...lapis albus pocula cum cyatho duo sustinet, adstat echinus vilis, cum patera guttus, Campana supellex. deinde eo dormitum..."