Stamen, staminis, pen. cor n. g Plin. Hempe or flare sette on a distaffe to spinne: cloth in the loome or frame: a thread.Albi staminis lanificæ. Iuuenal. Aurea stamina. Star. Threads of gold.Candida.Ouid.Tenuissima.Ouid.Very small threedes.Operosum stamen.Ouid. Læuia stamine ducere versato fuso.Ouid.To spinne.Gracili stamine intendere telas.Ouid.To spinne small and fine threedes.Minuunt colos stamina.Ouid.Threads spunne emptie the distaffe. Nectere stamina. Sen. Nere stamina.Ouid.To spinne.Fatalia stamina nentes Parcæ. Tibull. Sollieitat stamina docto pollice.Ouid.Shee spinneth cunningly.Torquere stamina digitis.Ouid.To draw out threedes, to spinne. Stamina in ligno, vel herbis. Pli. Thieues or little things standing out like threedes in the midst of flowers, as in lillies, honie suckles, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
stāmen, ĭnis, n. [sto], the warp in the upright loom of the ancients (cf.: trama, subtemen). I.Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, 113 Müll.; Tib. 1, 3, 86; Ov. M. 6, 54 sq.; 6, 576; 4, 275; 4, 397 al.—II.Transf., in gen. A.A thread hanging from the distaff: aut ducunt lanas aut stamina pollice versant, Ov. M. 4, 34; 4, 179; 4, 221; 12, 475: operoso stamine, id. A. A. 1, 695: et minuent plenas stamina nostra colos, id. H. 3, 76: deducere plenā stamina longa colu, Tib. 1, 3, 86; 1, 6, 78: digitis dum torques stamina duris, Ov. H. 9, 79.—Of the threads of the Parcae, Tib. 1, 7, 2; 3, 3, 36; Ov. M. 8, 453; id. Tr. 5, 13, 24; 4, 1, 63; Luc. 3, 19; 6, 777. —Hence, de legibus queri Fatorum et nimio de stamine, too long a thread of life, Juv. 10, 252.—Poet.: fallebam stamine somnum, i. e.
by spinning
, Prop. 1, 3, 41.— B. Of threads of other sorts; thus, of the thread of Ariadne, Prop. 4 (5), 4, 42; of the spider, Ov. M. 6, 145; Plin. 11, 24, 28, 80; of a net, id. 19, 1, 2, 11; of the stamina of the lily, id. 21, 5, 11, 23; the fibres of wood, id. 16, 38, 73, 186; the strings of an instrument, Ov. M. 11, 169.—C. (Pars pro toto.) A cloth made of threads; so the fillets of priests, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 52; Sil. 3, 25.—A garment, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 304; id. Laud. Stil. 2, 346; id. Rapt. Pros. 2, 34.