flagrantissimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flagrans, flagrantis (gen.), flagrantior -or -us, flagrantissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
flaming, fiery, blazing; hot, scorching; in the ascendant (person/popularity);; burning (w/desire), ardent/passionate; outrageous (crime), monstrous, flagrant;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...genuerat, Otho pellexit iuventa ac luxu et quia flagrantissimus in amicitia Neronis habebatur. nec mora quin adulterio matrimonium..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...viris abolet dimissa in hiberna legione septima, cuius flagrantissimus in Antonium amor. et tertia legio, familiaris Arrio Varo..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...diei itinere dirimuntur; ipsi amare invicem, qui est flagrantissimus amor, adulescentuli coepimus. Mansit hic postea, nec refrixit iudicio..."