feto
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;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.) - Entry →feto, fetare, fetavi, fetatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
breed/spawn; hatch/bring forth offspring/young; impregnate, make fruitful (L+S);
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...obscurus, quem mihi caeli qui furta luit uiscere feto dedit et docuit condere uires arte, Prometheus; dedit..."Ecloga III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...Dulce satis umor, depulsis arbutus haedis, lenta salix feto pecori, mihi solus Amyntas. Damoetas Pollio amat nostram, quamvis..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...visceribus gravidae telluris imago effecta est hominis, feto consurgit in arvo, quodque magis mirum est, simul edita concutit..."
