{
    "meta": {
        "serviceProvider": {
            "name": "Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanties, TELOTA - IT\/DH",
            "link": "https:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/en\/bbaw-digital\/telota"
        },
        "dataProvider": {
            "name": "Classical Language Dictionary",
            "link": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de"
        }
    },
    "query": {
        "self": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de\/api\/dictionary\/lemma\/squaleo?language=lat&options=case-sensitive",
        "searchDate": "2026-05-13 00:15:29",
        "searchFor": "lemma",
        "searchTerm": "squaleo",
        "language": "LAT",
        "options": {
            "strict": true,
            "case-sensitive": true,
            "regex": false,
            "simplified": false
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "lemma": "squaleo",
            "meanings": 1,
            "language": "lat",
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "dictionary": "Lewis Short",
                    "reference": "Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary",
                    "source": "https:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059",
                    "description": "(v. n.P. a.) : squālĕo, ŭi, 2, v. n.squalor\n* To be stiff or rough with any thing, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; cf. sordeo).\n* Lit.\n* In gen.: squalentes infode conchas,i. e. rough,Verg. G. 2, 348: per tunicam squalentem auro,id. A. 10, 314; cf.: auro squalens lorica,id. ib. 12, 87: maculis auro squalentibus,id. G. 4, 91; Sil. 2, 585: picti squalentia terga lacerti,Verg. G. 4, 13: squalentia  tela venenis, Ov. F. 5, 397.\n* Transf., to mourn in filthy or squalid garments (cf. sordes and sordidatus; in Cic. only so): erat in luctu senatus: squalebat civitas publico consilio mutatā veste,Cic. Sest. 14, 32: luget senatus, maeret equester ordo, tota civitas confecta senio est, squalent municipia, afflictantur coloniae,id. Mil. 8, 20. —P. a. as subst.: squālĕntĭa, ōrum, n., deserts, Plin. 5, 9, 10, § 52.\n* To be stiff or rough from dryness or drought, to be dry, parched: squalebant pulvere fauces,Luc. 9, 503: oraque projecta squalent arentia linguā,id. 4, 755: tellus squalet,Sil. 14, 592.—Hence\n* Of lands, etc., to be desert, untilled, waste: squalentes campi,Sil. 3, 655; 4, 376: squalens litus,Tac. A. 15, 42: squalentia arva Libyes,Luc. 1, 205; 5, 39: sterilis profundi vastitas squalet soli,Sen. Herc. Fur. 697.\n* To be stiff or rough from slovenliness or want of care; to be filthy, neglected, squalid: squalenti Dido comā,Ov. F. 3, 640: squalens barba,Verg. A. 2, 277: crines squalent a pulvere effuso,Sil. 2, 452: barba cruore,id. 10, 512: vestes squalentes atro pulvere,Luc. 8, 37: neque ego arma squalere situ ac rubigine velim, sed fulgorem inesse,Quint. 10, 1, 30; Gell. 9, 4, 2: mihi supellex squalet atque aedes meae,Plaut. Pers. 4, 8, 2: invidiae nigro squalentia tabo Tecta petit,Ov. M. 2, 760; cf. id. ib. 15, 627: squalent abductis arva colonis,lie untilled,Verg. G. 1, 507; cf. 1. β, supra."
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}