stamen
Dictionary entries
- Entry →stamen, staminis:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
warp (in the loom); thread (on distaff); thread of life spun by the Fates;
acc. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...solutoque ducantur, deinde quemadmodum tela suspensis ponderibus rectum stamen extendat, quemadmodum subtemen insertum, quod duritiam utrimque conprimentis tramae..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...amore captus ad leues sedit colos, tenerum feroci stamen intorquens manu. nempe illa ceruix spolia deposuit ferae crinemque..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...geminas intendunt stamine telas: tela iugo vincta est, stamen secernit harundo, inseritur medium radiis subtemen acutis, quod digiti..."