lautius
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lautus, lauta -um, lautior -or -us, lautissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
elegant, fashionable; sumptuous/luxurious; fine, well turned out; washed/clean;
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.) - Entry →laute, lautius, lautissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
elegantly, sumptuously, fashionably, finely; liberally;
Examples
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quoquam? "Quare hic philosophus laxius habitat? quare hic lautius cenat?" Papulas obseruatis alienas, obsiti plurimis ulceribus? hoc tale..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...sufficeret largior scena, id est vestis humanior, instrumentum lautius, quod praeberet mendacio fidem: non mehercules operam istam differrem..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...domum etiam et familiam et supellectilem dedit, quo lautius nomine eius invitati acciperentur; consulatum quoque traditur destinasse..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...enim interest, expetas an eligas? Mihi quidem etiam lautius videtur, quod eligitur, et ad quod dilectus adhibetur..."
