vulsas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →vello, vellere, velli, vulsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pluck/pull/tear out; extract; pull hair/plants; uproot; depilate; demolish;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...adversum speculum ornetur, cuius supercilia radantur, qui barba vulsa feminibusque subvulsis ambulet, qui in conviviis adulescentulus cum amatore..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...lacertis expressa sunt: sed eadem si quis vulsa atque fucata muliebriter comat, foedissima sint ipso formae labore..." - P
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...comprensamque tenet pedibusque eviscerat uncis; tum cruor et vulsae labuntur ab aethere plumae. At non haec nullis hominum..."