radix
Dictionary entries
- Entry →radix, radicis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
root; base; square-root (math);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...frigidus. PAR. Eloquere. OL. At pullet. PAR. Num radix fuit? OL. Non fuit. PAR. Num cucumis? OL. Profecto..."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..."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..."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..."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..."Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...exsternata fugam frustra temptabat, at illam lenta tenet radix exsultantemque coercet, dumque ubi sint digiti..."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..."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..."