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(adjective) = νόθος: nŏthus, a, um
* Spurious, not genuine.
* Lit.
* Of persons, illegitimate, bastard, born out of wedlock (but of a known father; contra, spurius, of an unknown father: legitimus, born in wedlock): nothum qui non sit legitimus, Graeci vocant: Latinum rei nomen non habemus,Quint. 3, 6, 97; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.; Quint. 3, 6, 96; 7, 7, 10: Antiphaten ... Thebanā de matre nothum Sarpedonis alti,Verg. A. 9, 697.
* Transf., not genuine, false, counterfeit (poet. and in post-class. prose): lunaque sive notho fertur loca lumine lustrans, Sive suam proprio jactat de corpore lucem,i. e. borrowed, not its own,Lucr. 5, 575; so, lumen,Cat. 34, 15: Attis notha mulier,false, counterfeit,id. 63, 27: quojus genera (nominum) sunt tria, unum vernaculum ac domi natum, alterum adventicium, tertium nothum ex peregrino hic natum,Varr. L. L. 10, § 69 Müll.; so, notha nomina,id. ib. 10, § 70: nothae atque adulterae lectiones,Arn. 5, 182.
* Spurious, not genuine.
* Lit.
* Of persons, illegitimate, bastard, born out of wedlock (but of a known father; contra, spurius, of an unknown father: legitimus, born in wedlock): nothum qui non sit legitimus, Graeci vocant: Latinum rei nomen non habemus,Quint. 3, 6, 97; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 174 Müll.; Quint. 3, 6, 96; 7, 7, 10: Antiphaten ... Thebanā de matre nothum Sarpedonis alti,Verg. A. 9, 697.
* Transf., not genuine, false, counterfeit (poet. and in post-class. prose): lunaque sive notho fertur loca lumine lustrans, Sive suam proprio jactat de corpore lucem,i. e. borrowed, not its own,Lucr. 5, 575; so, lumen,Cat. 34, 15: Attis notha mulier,false, counterfeit,id. 63, 27: quojus genera (nominum) sunt tria, unum vernaculum ac domi natum, alterum adventicium, tertium nothum ex peregrino hic natum,Varr. L. L. 10, § 69 Müll.; so, notha nomina,id. ib. 10, § 70: nothae atque adulterae lectiones,Arn. 5, 182.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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