{
    "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\/vorago?language=lat&options=case-sensitive",
        "searchDate": "2026-04-16 16:30:06",
        "searchFor": "lemma",
        "searchTerm": "vorago",
        "language": "LAT",
        "options": {
            "strict": true,
            "case-sensitive": true,
            "regex": false,
            "simplified": false
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "lemma": "vorago",
            "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": "vŏrāgo (noun F) : voro\n* An abyss, gulf, whirlpool, depth, chasm.\n* Lit., of watery depths: summersus equus voraginibus,Cic. Div. 1, 33, 73: vastāque voragine gurges Aestuat,Verg. A. 6, 296; Cat. 17, 26; Curt. 8, 14, 8: explicet se Cotta, si potest, ex hac voragine,Lact. 2, 8, 55.—Of a gulf or chasm in the earth, Liv. 7, 6, 1; Curt. 8, 14, 2.— Poet., of a devouring maw or stomach: ventris,Ov. M. 8, 843.\n* Transf.: vos geminae voragines scopulique rei publicae,i. e. gulfs,Cic. Pis. 18, 41: gurges et vorago patrimonii,devourer, squanderer, spendthrift,id. Sest. 52, 111: vorago aut gurges vitiorum,abyss,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23: avaritia, manifestae praedae avidissima vorago,abyss, gulf,Val. Max. 9, 4 init."
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}