obscenam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obscenus, obscena -um, obscenior -or -us, obscenissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
repulsive, detestable; foul; indecent, obscene, lewd; (sexual/excretory things);; inauspicious/unpropitious; ill-omened/boding ill; filthy, polluted, disgusting;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...potest exui: alius genitalia excidit, alius in obscenam ludi partem fugit et locatus ad mortem infame armaturae genus..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...exuit, in vultus sese transformat anilis et frontem obscenam rugis arat, induit albos cum vitta crinis, tum ramum..."