tinea
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tineo, tineare, tineavi, tineatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Later
be infested with moths; (or maggots/larvae of moths which do the eating/damage);
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →tinea, tineae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
moth;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...dona Veneris, Telesine, marito, aut clude et positos tinea pertunde libellos. frange miser calamum uigilataque proelia dele..."Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...XXXVII Scrinium. Selectos nisi das mihi libellos,Admittam tineas trucesque blattas. XXXVIII Fasces calamorum. Dat chartis habiles calamos..."Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...carinae. Sunt illic duo tresve qui revolvant nostrarum tineas ineptiarum, sed cum sponsio fabulaeque lassae de Scorpo fuerint..."Liber VI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...mihi crede, satis: quam multi tineas pascunt blattasque diserti et redimunt soli carmina docta coci! Nescio quid plus..."Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...fraudare duobus — quid renuis? — non te, Naeuole, sed tineas? 10 Subdola famosae moneo fuge retia moechae, leuior..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...inquit, Stiche, ne ista mures tangant aut tineae; alioquin te vivum conburam. Ego gloriosus volo efferri, ut totus..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...unca; quaeque solent canis frondes intexere filis agrestes tineae (res observata colonis) ferali mutant cum papilione figuram. 'Semina..."