nardi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nardus, nardi:
Feminine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
unguent/balsam/oil of nard (an aromatic plant); the plant nard;
gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →nardum, nardi:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
unguent/balsam/oil of nard (an aromatic plant); the plant nard;
gen. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- T
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...corpore odorem. sicut amaracini blandum stactaeque liquorem et nardi florem, nectar qui naribus halat, cum facere instituas..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...totus mihi populus bene imprecetur." Statim ampullam nardi aperuit omnesque nos unxit et: "Spero, inquit, futurum ut aeque..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sibi construit ore, quo simul ac casias et nardi lenis aristas quassaque cum fulva substravit cinnama murra..."