tubam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tuba, tubae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Field:
- Arts
trumpet (straight tube); (military signals/religious rites); hydraulic ram pipe;
acc. sg.
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...effecerit? Non decoros corporis motus nec varios per tubam ac tibiam cantus, quibus exceptus spiritus aut in exitu..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...erit: tecum lituo bonus adsit Agyrtes occultamque tubam tacitos adportet in usus.' Dixerat, atque ipso portarum in limine..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...indecores in limine primo deficimus? cur ante tubam tremor occupat artus? multa dies variique labor mutabilis aevi rettulit..."