serraco
Dictionary entries
- Entry →serracum, serraci:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
kind of wagon/cart/wain; S:Charles's Wain constellation (Big Dipper);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...ventilat ignem. scinduntur tunicae sartae modo, longa coruscat serraco veniente abies, atque altera pinum plaustra vehunt; nutant alte..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dicit in Pisonem Cicero "cum tibi tota cognatio serraco advehatur", incidisse videtur in sordidum nomen, non eo contemptum..."