spumam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spuma, spumae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
foam, froth; slime, scum, spume; hair pomade/dye;
acc. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...neque os turbidum, neque inmaniter clamo neque in spumam ruboremve effervesco neque pudenda dico aut paenitenda neque omnino..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere, ter spumam elisam et rorantia vidimus astra. interea fessos ventus cum sole..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...saevit, dum corpora versat in orbem stridentemque novo spumam cum sanguine fundit, vulneris auctor adest hostemque inritat..."