viscus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →viscus, visceris:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Field:
- Bio/medical
soft fleshy body parts (usu. pl.), internal organs; entrails, flesh; offspring;
acc. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg. - Entry →viscus, visci:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
mistletoe; bird-lime (made from mistletoe berries);
nom. sg.
Examples
- T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...folia farferi. LYC. Quoi rei? ANTAM. Ad fundas viscus ne adhaeresceret. LYC. Perge. optume hercle perieras. quid postea..." - T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...biberis, eadem dedero tibi, ubi biberis, savium. P. Viscus merus vostrast blanditia. B. Quid iam? P. Quia enim..." - T
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...ossibus hic et de pauxillis atque minutis visceribus viscus gigni sanguenque creari sanguinis inter se multis coeuntibus guttis..." - G
Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...itinere ullo temperavit, quin inter altaria ibidem statim viscus et farra paene rapta e foco manderet, circaque viarum..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...tibi, nosse laboro.' 'summus ego et prope me Viscus Thurinus et infra, si memini, Varius; cum Servilio Balatrone..."