fetum
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. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - 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;
acc. sg.gen. pl.
Examples
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...convisens oculis loca, si queat usquam conspicere amissum fetum, completque querellis frondiferum nemus adsistens et crebra revisit..."Satura XV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...numina!), lanatis animalibus abstinet omnis mensa, nefas illic fetum iugulare capellae: carnibus humanis uesci licet. attonito cum tale..."de Spectaculis
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) from EPIGRAMMATON LIBRI
"...fera iam grauior maturi pignori uentris emisit fetum, uolnere facta parens; nec iacuit partus, sed matre cadente cucurrit..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...matrum et flauas medio uapore Chias et fetum querulae rudem capellae nec iam frigoribus pares oliuas et canum..."Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...somniculosos ille porrigit glires, hic uagientem matris hispidae fetum, alius coactos non amare capones; et dona matrum uimine..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...nascuntur. Ridet! Quid habet quod rideat? Numquid pater fetum emit lamna? Eques Romanus es? Et ego regis filius..."Liber II
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...cavernam nancta in media, pepererat;sus nemoris cultrix fetum ad imam posuerat.tum fortuitum feles contuberniumfraude et scelesta..."Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...versus subiecti monent.Canis parturiens cum rogasset alteram,ut fetum in eius tugurio deponeret,facile impetravit. Dein reposcenti locumpreces..."
