femorum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →femur, femoris:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Bio/medical
thigh (human/animal); flat vertical band on triglyph; [~ bubulum => plant];
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...sanie, surae fluxere, sine ullo tegmine poples erat, femorum quoque musculus omnis liquitur, et nigra destillant inguina tabe..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...quos fugit, attrahit una et corpus quaerens femorum crurumque pedumque Cerbereos rictus pro partibus invenit illis: statque canum..."
