feturas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fetura, feturae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
breeding (animals); gestation, carrying young; bearing/forth young, parturition;; laying/hatching eggs; brood, litter, young offspring; young shoots (of vine);
acc. pl.
Examples
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...undecim. Quod si ita neque ultra decimum mensem fetura mulierum protolli potest, quaeri oportet, cur Homerus scripserit Neptunum..." 
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...Adrastus. uertice sic Pholoes uolucrum nutritor equorum, cum fetura gregem pecoroso uere nouauit, laetatur cernens hos montis..."- P
Ecloga VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...marmoreum pro tempore fecimus; at tu, si fetura gregem suppleuerit, aureus esto. Corydon Nerine Galatea, thymo mihi dulcior..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...ante decem, post quattuor incipit annos; cetera nec feturae habilis nec fortis aratris. interea, superat gregibus dum laeta..."