positu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pono, ponere, posui, positus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
put/place/set; station/post (troops); pitch (camp); situate; set up; erect;; specify, put down; cite/quote; locate; depict; classify; assume/suppose; bury;; lay (foundation/keel); found (town), build; plant (trees); provide/serve;; put/lay down (load/arms), take off (clothes); shed (leaves); cut (nails);; esteem/value/count; impose; ordain; lend, put out, offer, wager; rid/drop;
abl. sg. - Entry →positus, positus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
situation, position; arrangement;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Zodiacus dicitur, sitae locataeque sunt, ut ex earum positu species quaedam et simulacrum esse videatur tauri capitis, sicuti..." - A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...positiva esse, sed naturalia. I. Nomina verbaque non positu fortuito, sed quadam vi et ratione naturae facta esse..." - A
Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...syllabam brevem esse non patitur, sed reddit eam positu longam, proptereaque et numerus in versu et ratio..." - A
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...lucorum umbra ingentium, longis ambulacris et mollibus, aedium positu refrigeranti, lavacris nitidis et abundis et collucentibus totiusque villae..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uidimus moueri iterumque componi. Quaedam uero parum aptata positu suo et a fabris neglegentius solutiusque composita terrae motus..." - L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...mutare nondum fessum latus et alio atque alio positu uentilari: qualis ille homericus Achilles est, modo pronus, modo..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...erat huius opus lanam mollire trahendo nec positu variare comas; ubi fibula vestem, vitta coercuerat neglectos alba capillos..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Moesia attinebant, totidem apud Delmatiam locatis, quae positu regionis a tergo illis, ac si repentinum auxilium Italia posceret..."
