salignas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →salignus, saligna, salignum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
made of willow-wood/withes; willow-;
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...radiabat marmore terra muneribus delusa suis, sed crate saligna impositum Cereris vacuae nemus et nova terrae pocula, quae..." - P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...turrigerae Antemnae. tegmina tuta cavant capitum flectuntque salignas umbonum cratis; alii thoracas aenos aut levis ocreas lento ducunt..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...horti et custos furum atque avium cum falce saligna Hellespontiaci servet tutela Priapi. Ipse thymum pinosque ferens..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...iactura decoris, cetera sospes habet. capitis quoque fronde saligna aut superinposita celatur harundine damnum. at te, Nesse ferox..."