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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- germen, ĭnis, n. [Sanscr. root grabh-, grah-, to conceive; garbh-as, child; whence, bre/fos (for gre/fos), germanus, perh. gremium], a sprig, offshoot, sprout, bud (poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I. Lit.:
huc aliena ex arbore germen Includunt
, Verg. G. 2, 76: serotino germine malus, tardissimo suber
, Plin. 16, 25, 41, 98; Vulg. Deut. 11, 17 et saep.—In plur.: inque novos soles audent se germina tuto Credere
, Verg. G. 2, 332; Plin. 18, 10, 21, 94: auctumni maturet germina Virgo
, fruits
, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 465: impleratque uterum generoso germine
, fœtus
, embryo
, Ov. M. 9, 280; so, celsa Tonantis
, i. e. daughter
, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 76: servile
, Just. 18, 3 fin.; and of puppies, whelps, Nemes. Cyneg. 155.—B. Transf.: cara maris
, i. e. precious stones
, Claud. Ep. ad Ser. 14: frontis
, i. e. a horn
, id. Rapt. Pros. 1, 129.—II. Trop., a germ: rabies unde illaec germina surgunt
, Lucr. 4, 1083: germen ab aethere trahere
, origin
, Prud. Cath. 10, 32: germine nobilis Eulalia, id. stef. 3, 1.
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