malleo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →malleus, mallei:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
hammer; mallet, maul; (also medical for the inner ear bone);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- T
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Ligneam, saepe tritam, saepe fixam, saepe excussam malleo; quasi supellex pellionis, palus palo proxumust. ER. Iam, amabo, desiste..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Admota altaribus victima succinctus poparum habitu elato alte malleo cultrarium mactavit. Lautiore convivio effusus subito in cachinnos consulibus..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...rectoribus quam ab hoste interfecti. fabrile scalprum cum malleo habebant; id, ubi saeuire beluae ac ruere in suos..."