usus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →utor, uti, usus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
use, make use of, enjoy; enjoy the friendship of (with ABL);
nom. sg. perf. part. - Entry →usus, usus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
use, enjoyment; experience, skill, advantage; custom;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.nom. sg.voc. pl.voc. sg.
Examples
- P
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...advertite mentem: arma acri facienda viro. nunc viribus usus, nunc manibus rapidis, omni nunc arte magistra. praecipitate moras..." - P
Ecloga II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...ulmo. quin tu aliquid saltem potius, quorum indiget usus, viminibus mollique paras detexere iunco? invenies alium..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...passim riuis currentia uina repressit, ut uarias usus meditando extunderet artis paulatim, et sulcis frumenti quaereret herbam..." - P
Liber II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...sacrorum. sunt alii, quos ipse uia sibi repperit usus: hic plantas tenero abscindens de corpore matrum deposuit sulcis..." - P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...iactantur inanes. hoc faciunt, nimio ne luxu obtunsior usus sit genitali aruo et sulcos oblimet inertis, sed rapiat..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...arte salutem. Exiguus primum atque ipsos contractus in usus eligitur locus; hunc angustique imbrice tecti parietibusque premunt artis..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...verbosis dicitur et fatuis. ista cum lingua, si usus veniat tibi, possis culos et crepidas lingere carpatinas..." - P
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ensemque recludit Dardanium, non hos quaesitum munus in usus. hic, postquam Iliacas vestis notumque cubile conspexit, paulum lacrimis..."