ostrum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ostrum, ostri:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
purple dye; purple color; material/garment/anything that has been dyed purple;
acc. sg.gen. pl.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...aliter rubeat ignis, aliter sanguis, aliter ostrum, aliter crocum, aliter aurum, has singulas rufi varietates Latina oratio singulis..." 
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...geminam prolem sine praeside linquens; 65nec saltem teneris ostrum puerile lacertisexuit albentique umeros induxit amictu.quem non corrupit pubes..."