tonsiles
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tonsilis, tonsilis, tonsile:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
shearable; cuttable; that may be shorn/cut/clipped; shorn/clipped/cut/lopped;
acc. pl. (m./f.)nom. pl. (m./f.)voc. pl. (m./f.)
Examples
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...Item id quoque iucunde lepideque fictum dictitabat: iam tonsiles tapetes ebrii fuco quos concha purpura imbuens venenavit..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...hortus, opes, In quibus est lactuca sedens et tonsile porrum, Nec deest ructatrix menta nec herba salax; Secta..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ante contemnere porticus, et lacunaria ebore fulgentia, et tonsiles siluas, et deriuata in domos flumina, quam totum circumeat..."