musculus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →musculus, musculi:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
little mouse, small rodent; common mouse; various (sea) creatures; mussel;; B:muscle; W:military shed, mantelet, "mousie"; small boat (mydion);
nom. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...fluxere, sine ullo tegmine poples erat, femorum quoque musculus omnis liquitur, et nigra destillant inguina tabe. dissiluit stringens..." - G
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...trabes erant in capreolis collocatae, lateribus lutoque musculus, ut ab igni, qui ex muro iaceretur, tutus esset, contegitur..."
