faucis
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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...infortunio hominem praedicas donabilem. TRACH. Qui sacerdoti scelestus faucis interpresserit. DAEM. At malo cum magno suo fecit hercle..." - M
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..." - Q
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..."