mammi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mammon, mammis:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
riches, wealth; (gain of wickedness, quasi-personification of covetousness OED);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...poteram tuo carere et collo manibusque cruribusque et mammis natibusque clunibusque, et, ne singula persequi laborem, tota..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...natam in dumis interque horrentia lustra armentalis equae mammis et lacte ferino nutribat teneris immulgens ubera labris. utque..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...spumauerit ubere mulctra, laeta magis pressis manabunt flumina mammis. nec minus interea barbas incanaque menta Cinyphii tondent hirci..."
