gelu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →gelus, gelus
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
frost, ice, snow; frosty weather; cold, chilliness (of old age/death/fear);
abl. sg.dat. sg. - Entry →gelu, gelus
Neuter · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
frost, ice, snow; frosty weather; cold, chilliness (of old age/death/fear);
abl. sg.acc. sg.dat. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Text excerpts
Matching passages for this spelling. Other inflected forms of the same lemma may appear elsewhere; excerpts are not translations.
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Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...homines intonsi et inculti, animalia inanimaque omnia rigentia gelu, cetera visu quam dictu foediora terrorem renovarunt. Erigentibus..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...cetera bellofata dedit uariis incertus motibus aer.pigro bruma gelu siccisque Aquilonibus haerens 50aethere constricto pluuias in nube tenebat.urebant..." - L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...bruma decussit decus nemorum et niuali cuncta constrinxit gelu, quodcumque gramen flore mortifero uiret, dirusue tortis sucus..." Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...roscida tecta subibat, decidit hiberno praegrauis unda gelu: cumque peregisset miseri crudelia fata, tabuit in calido uolnere mucro..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...dixerat, extremus cum lumina corripit error voxque repressa gelu percussaque vertice tellus. Hinc animos acies auget magnoque doloris..."- P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...iacet aggeribus niueis informis et alto terra gelu late septemque adsurgit in ulnas. semper hiems, semper spirantes frigora..." 
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ferarum, deprensaeque cadunt uolucres, et messis amaro strata gelu, fragor inde iugis, inde amnibus irae. ut uero elisit..."- G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...quod amicissimum illis, difficillimum nobis: quum Danubius ripas gelu iungit, duratusque glacie ingentia tergo bella transportat: quum ferae..."
