pruriat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prurio, prurire, -, -:
Verb · 4th conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
itch, tingle (in anticipation); be sexually excited, have sexual craving;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tibi sit puer cinaedus et castissima pruriat puella: infamem nimio calore Cypron observes moneo precorque, Flacce, messes area..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...sunt molliculi ac parum pudici, et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis qui duros..."