spumam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spuma, spumae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
foam, froth; slime, scum, spume; hair pomade/dye;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...neque os turbidum, neque inmaniter clamo neque in spumam ruboremve effervesco neque pudenda dico aut paenitenda neque omnino..."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..."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..."