fauci
Dictionary entries
- Entry →faux, faucis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pharynx (usu pl.), gullet/throat/neck/jaws/maw; narrow pass/shaft/strait; chasm;
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...infortunio hominem praedicas donabilem. TRACH. Qui sacerdoti scelestus faucis interpresserit. DAEM. At malo cum magno suo fecit hercle..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...labens et iam languentia collauiso patre leuat; uox faucis nulla solutasprosequitur, tacito tantum petit oscula uoltuinuitatque patris claudenda..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...prodest et inane abscindere soldo? num, tibi cum faucis urit sitis, aurea quaeris pocula? num esuriens fastidis omnia..."