fetam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fetus, feta, fetum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pregnant/breeding (animal); fertile/fruitful; growing/teeming/abounding/full of;; having newly brought forth/given birth/whelped/calved; bearing/reproducing;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...caedem iuxta mortemque paratus: ut lea, quam saeuo fetam pressere cubili uenantes Numidae, natos erecta superstat, mente..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...laetus adest—o quantum gaudia formae adiciunt!—: fetam Pholoes sub rupe leaenam perculerat ferro vacuisque reliquerat antris ipsam..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Ascanio pugnataque in ordine bella. fecerat et viridi fetam Mavortis in antro procubuisse lupam, geminos huic ubera circum..."