fruticant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →frutico, fruticare, fruticavi, fruticatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
put forth shoots, bush/branch out; (antlers); become bushy, grow thickly (hair);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nemora atque cavos montis silvasque colebant et frutices inter condebant squalida membra verbera ventorum vitare imbrisque coacti..."Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...reda, omnis beati copias trahens ruris. Illic uideres frutice nobili caules et utrumque porrum sessilesque lactucas pigroque uentri..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...aliquas partes montis, in arbores, rames, frutices, aspera saxa et eminentia; et ita discutiuntur, et, si quem habent..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...solet quicquid libet. Hic ego callens artibus Idaeos frutices in gurgite sistam, et rursus fluvios in summo vertice..."Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...tres Vespasiae partus, singulos repente ramos a frutice dedit, haud dubia signa futuri cuiusque fati: primum exilem..."Liber I
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...derisui.Venari asello comite cum vellet leo,contexit illum frutice et admonuit simulut insueta voce terreret feras,fugientes ipse..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...primum subiere domos; domus antra fuerunt et densi frutices et vinctae cortice virgae. semina tum primum longis Cerealia..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tamen timeat, nec carpat ab arbore flores, et frutices omnes corpus putet esse dearum. care vale coniunx..."