menstruos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →menstruus, menstrua, menstruum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
monthly; happens/done/paid every month; of/lasting for/consisting of a month;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...notho es dicta lumine Luna. tu cursu, dea, menstruo metiens iter annuum, rustica agricolae bonis tecta frugibus exples..."Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...inopiae, profiteri cogendo frumentum et vendere quod usui menstruo superesset, fraudandoque parte diurni cibi servitia, criminando inde..."