faucium
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;
gen. pl.
Examples
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ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...excitatur! Pretiosos autem non eximius sapor aut aliqua faucium dulcedo sed raritas et difficultas parandi facit. Alioqui..." - G
Virgil
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...reverso post Actiacam victoriam Augusto atque Atellae reficiendarum faucium causa commoranti per continuum quadriduum legit, suscipiente Maecenate legendi..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...dentes, rigentem vultum et destitutas genas et inanes faucium sinus; prona cervix, tergum ossibus inaequale, infernis imaginibus similes..."