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nodosus
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Lewis Short
(adj.adv.) : nōdōsus, a, um, adj.nodus
* Full of knots, knotty (syn. geniculatus).
* Lit.: stipes,Ov. H. 10, 101: robur,Val. Fl. 8, 298: lina,nets,Ov. M. 3, 153; so, plagae,id. F. 6, 110: vitis,Juv. 8, 247: ossa,the bones of the neck, the cervical vertebrae,Luc. 8, 672: rami,Sen. Ep. 12, 1: fructus,Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 176: cheragra (so called from its producing blains and knots on the fingers),Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 31: podagra,Ov. P. 1, 3, 23.
* Trop., knotty, intricate, difficult (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quaestiones,Macr. S. 7, 1 med.—Sup.: nodosissimi libri enodati,Aug. Conf. 4, 16: Cicuta,familiar with the intricacies of the law,Hor. S. 2, 3, 69; so, nodosam exsolvite stipem,Val. Max. 2, 9, 1 (dub.).—Hence, adv.: nōdōsē, intricately, obscurely (post-class.); comp.: nodosius,Tert. Res. Carn. 46.
* Full of knots, knotty (syn. geniculatus).
* Lit.: stipes,Ov. H. 10, 101: robur,Val. Fl. 8, 298: lina,nets,Ov. M. 3, 153; so, plagae,id. F. 6, 110: vitis,Juv. 8, 247: ossa,the bones of the neck, the cervical vertebrae,Luc. 8, 672: rami,Sen. Ep. 12, 1: fructus,Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 176: cheragra (so called from its producing blains and knots on the fingers),Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 31: podagra,Ov. P. 1, 3, 23.
* Trop., knotty, intricate, difficult (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quaestiones,Macr. S. 7, 1 med.—Sup.: nodosissimi libri enodati,Aug. Conf. 4, 16: Cicuta,familiar with the intricacies of the law,Hor. S. 2, 3, 69; so, nodosam exsolvite stipem,Val. Max. 2, 9, 1 (dub.).—Hence, adv.: nōdōsē, intricately, obscurely (post-class.); comp.: nodosius,Tert. Res. Carn. 46.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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