Spisso, spissas, spissâre. Plin. To make thicke.Spissari in panem farinæ modo. Plin. Spissari pectinatim. Plin.
Spissus, spissa, spissum. Virg.Thicke: sloine.Aether spissus.Ouid.Amom a spissa tergit de comis.Ouid.Arena spissa.Virg. Caligo spissa. Ouid.Coma spissa. Hor. Corona spissa viris. Vir. A company of men standing thicke togither.Corpus spissum. Lueret. Flatu spissa implere sedilia. Horat. With the sowue or noise of fluites or pipes, tosill the Theater replenished wyth company of men.Grandine spissa glomeratur corpus.Ouid.The body of the water is congealed tound into thicke haile.Laurea spissa ramis. Hor. Littus spissum.Ouid.The harde and sounde sea banke.Nubes spissa.Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
spisso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.]. I.Lit., to thicken, make thick, condense (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; esp. freq. in Pliny the elder; cf. denso): omne lac igne spissatur, Plin. 11, 41, 96, 238; so, spissatum lac, id. 20, 7, 24, 58: farinae modo spissatur in panem, id. 13, 4, 9, 47: ignis densum spissatus in aëra transit, Ov. M. 15, 250; cf. Luc. 4, 77: (aquilo) sanum corpus spissat, Cels. 2, 1 med.; cf. Plin. 26, 13, 83, 134; Sen. Ep. 90, 10.— II.Trop., to urge on, hasten an action, i. e. to perform it more rapidly: spissare officium, Petr. 140.
spissus, a, um, adj. [root spi-, to press; cf. Lith. spitu]. I.Lit., thick, crowded, close, compact, dense (mostly poet and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: crassus, densas): durata ac spissa, Lucr. 2, 444: corpus, id. 6, 127: liquor, Ov. M. 12, 438: sanguis, id. ib. 11, 367: aër, id. ib. 1, 23: grando, id. ib. 9, 222 et saep.: corona Non tam spissa viris, Verg. A. 9, 509; so, coronae, Hor. A. P. 381: sedilia, id. ib. 205: theatra, id. Ep. 1, 19, 41: coma, id. C. 3, 19, 25; cf.: nemorum comae, id. ib. 4, 3, 11: ramis laurea, id. ib. 2, 15, 9: harena, Verg. A. 5, 336; cf. litus, Ov. M. 15, 718: tunica,
of a close texture
, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 46: navis juncturis aquam excludentibus, Sen. Ep. 76: caligo, Ov. M. 7, 528: noctis umbrae, Verg. A. 2, 621: tenebrae, Petr. 114, 3: nubes, Ov. Am. 1, 13, 30; id. M. 5, 621; Curt. 4, 3, 16; 8, 13, 24.—Comp.: semen, Col. 4, 33, 3: ignis, Luc. 9, 604.—Sup.: spississima arbor (ebenus et buxus), Plin. 16, 40, 76, 204: minimum ex nequitiā levissimumque ad alios redundat; quod pessimum ex illā est et, ut ita dicam, spississimum, domi remanet et premit habentem, Sen. Ep. 81, 21.—B.Transf., of time. 1.Slow, tardy, late (rare but class.): omnia tarda et spissa, Cic. Att. 16, 18, 2; cf.: in utroque genere dicendi exitus spissi et producti esse debent, id. de Or. 2, 53, 213.—2. Spissum illud amanti est verbum, Veniet nisi venit, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 77: nihil ego spei credo, omnes res spissas facit, Caecil. ap. Non. 392, 15; Pac., Titin., and Turp. ib. sq.: haruspices si quid boni promittunt, pro spisso evenit; Id quod mali promittunt, praesentiarum est,
slowly
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late
, Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 47.—3.Thick, i. e. in quick succession, rapid, frequent, fast, = continuus, creber (very rare): spississima basia, Petr. 31, 1.— II.Trop., hard, difficult (rare but class.): spissum sane opus et operosum, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 1: si id erit spissius, id. Fam. 2, 10, 4: si est aliquanto spissius, id. de Or. 3, 36, 145.—Hence, adv.: spissē. 1.Thickly, closely: calcare carbones, Plin. 36, 25, 63, 188.—Comp., Col. 2, 9, 2; Plin. 29, 2, 9, 31. —2.Transf.a.Slowly: tu nimis spisse atque tarde incedis, Naev. ap. Non. 392, 25: habet hoc senectus, cum pigra est ipsa, ut spisse omnia videantur confieri, Pac. ib. 393, 4: cum spisse atque vix ad Antonium pervenimus, Cic. Brut. 36, 138.—Comp.: nascimur spissius quam emorimur, Varr. ap. Non. 392, 29.— b.Rapidly: basiavit me spissius, Petr. 18, 4.