fulcra
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fulcrum, fulcri:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Field:
- Science
fulcrum; point of support for lever;; head or back-support of a couch; bed post; foot of a couch; sole of the foot;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...pueris puellisque nobilibus, qui more veteri ad fulcra lectorum sedentes uescerentur. Convivae, qui pridie scyphum aureum subripuisse existimabatur..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...modo nocte iacebat amplexu duro Getici resoluta mariti. fulcra torosque deae tenerum premit agmen Amorum; signa petunt quas..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...lapsura cadentique imminet adsimilis; lucent genialibus altis aurea fulcra toris, epulaeque ante ora paratae regifico luxu; Furiarum maxima..."