insecti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inseco, insecare, insecui, insectus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cut/incise; make incision in; make by cutting; cut into/up (L+S); dissect;
gen. sg. perf. pass. part.gen. sg. perf. pass. part.nom. pl. perf. pass. part.voc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...Apion in libris Aegyptiacis hanc dicit, quod insectis apertisque humanis corporibus, ut mos in Aegypto fuit, quas Graeci..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inseritur medium radiis subtemen acutis, quod lato paviunt insecti pectine dentes. Quid si contigisset illi videre has nostri..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...digiti expediunt, atque inter stamina ductum percusso paviunt insecti pectine dentes. utraque festinant cinctaeque ad pectora vestes bracchia..."