radix
Dictionary entries
- Entry →radix, radicis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
root; base; square-root (math);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- T
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...frigidus. PAR. Eloquere. OL. At pullet. PAR. Num radix fuit? OL. Non fuit. PAR. Num cucumis? OL. Profecto..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...latissime fusas: quantulum est his conparatum illud, quod radix tenui fibra conplectitur? Tolle radicem: nemora non surgent..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...signum in caelo an nomen hominis an radix arboris nisi distinctum non intellegetur. XIV. Plus tamen est obscuritatis..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ipsis tabuere sulcis, aut levi rore evocata radix in pulverem incurrit, aut perustis torrido sole herbis moribunda seges..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...caudicibus sectis (mirabile dictu) truditur e sicco radix oleagina ligno; et saepe alterius ramos impune uidemus uertere..." - P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...exsternata fugam frustra temptabat, at illam lenta tenet radix exsultantemque coercet, dumque ubi sint digiti..." - P
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...loquentis terra supervenit, ruptosque obliqua per ungues porrigitur radix, longi firmamina trunci, ossaque robur agunt, mediaque manente medulla..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...conditaque in liquida corna autumnalia faece intibaque et radix et lactis massa coacti ovaque non acri leviter versata..."