enormes
Dictionary entries
- Entry →enormis, enormis, enorme:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
irregular; ill-fitting, shapeless; immense, huge, enormous; unusually large;
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.)
Examples
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...alia causa duros quosdam uersus et enormes et aliquid supra mensuram trahentis interposuit, quam ut Ennianus populus adgnosceret..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...argento primum vel in aere minori lusit, et enormes manus est experta colossos. dum vagor aspectu visusque..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...universum fama [est]: transgressis inmensum et enorme spatium procurrentium extremo iam litore terrarum velut in cuneum tenuatur. Hanc..."Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...diiudicandum est, immodicum sit an grande, altum an enorme. Atque ut Homerum potissimum attingam, quem tandem alterutram..."