maestissimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maestus, maesta -um, maestior -or -us, maestissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sad/unhappy; mournful/gloomy; mourning; stern/grim; ill-omened/inauspicious;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...aurea cingitur astris. illos Sole satus tacita maestissimus ira miratur temere adsumptos nec talia mallet robora quam medios..."Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...viris strictoque immortua caestu ossaque taetra situ capitum maestissimus ordo per piceas, quibus adverso sub vulnere nulla..."- P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...haec optasse, neque ille non iurasse potest. ergo maestissimus altum aethera conscendit vultuque sequentia traxit nubila, quis nimbos..."