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
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...Apion in libris Aegyptiacis hanc dicit, quod insectis apertisque humanis corporibus, ut mos in Aegypto fuit, quas Graeci..."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..."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..."