nothum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nothus, notha, nothum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
illegitimate (known father); cross-bred, mixed, mongrel; false, spurious;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
- M
Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...legitimis alterum in adoptionem dederat, alterum abdicaverat, sustulit nothum: instituto herede abdicato decessit. Tres omnes de bonis contendunt..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...enim se primus agebat), Thebana de matre nothum Sarpedonis alti, coniecto sternit iaculo: volat Itala cornus aera..."