femineus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →femineus, feminea, femineum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
woman's; female, feminine; proper to/typical of a woman; effeminate, cowardly;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
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Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...mater, Herculeum facis, compesce lacrimas' inquit, 'introrsus dolor femineus abeat; Iuno cur laetum diem te flente ducat? paelicis..." 
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...orgia Ganges. ecce per aduersas Dircaei uerticis umbras femineus quatit astra fragor, matresque Pelasgae decurrunt: quales Bacchea..."- P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...meus est animi, non aeris aestus, captaque femineus pectora torret amor? dum loquor, alba levi sparsa est tibi..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...visuque terribilis: superbia in fronte, ira in oculis, femineus pallor in corpore, in ore impudentia multo rubore suffusa..."