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
- L
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."