fetu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fetus, fetus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
offspring/young (animals); children (of a parent); brood/litter;; fetus/fetus, young while still in the womb; embryo (Cal);; birth/bringing forth young; laying (egg); bearing young, breeding; conception;; fruit of plant; produce/crop; offshoot/branch/sucker/sapling; bearing fruit;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Alcumenae huius honoris gratia pater curavit uno ut fetu fieret, uno ut labore absolvat aerumnas duas..."Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...taboque medullasabluit et uirus large lunare ministrat.huc quidquid fetu genuit natura sinistro 670miscetur: non spuma canum quibus unda..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mundi novitatem et mollia terrae arva, novo fetu quid primum in luminis oras tollere et incertis crerint committere..."Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...pariter socias carpit uterque dapes: nec fetu nemorum gaudent nec mitibus herbis, concordem satiat sed rudis agna famem..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...arbor ad fructum perducta delectat, si pastor ex fetu gregis sui capit voluptatem, si alumnum suum nemo aliter..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...tulit? deriguit aliqua mater, ut toto stetit succisa fetu, bisque septenos gregem deplanxit una: gregibus aequari meus quot..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...atque oculis mirabile monstrum, candida per silvam cum fetu concolor albo procubuit viridique in litore conspicitur sus; quam..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nova, quod non sua seminat arbos, et croceo fetu teretis circumdare truncos, talis erat species auri frondentis opaca..."