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Forms: spinosa (data provider: perseus), spinosae (data provider: perseus), spinosam (data provider: perseus), spinosarum (data provider: perseus), spinosas (data provider: perseus), spinose (data provider: donatus-sup), spinosi (data provider: perseus), spinosior (data provider: perseus), spinosiora (data provider: perseus), spinosiore (data provider: perseus), spinosis (data provider: perseus), spinosissimae (data provider: perseus), spinoso (data provider: perseus), spinosorum (data provider: perseus), spinosum (data provider: perseus), spinosumque (data provider: perseus), spinosus (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- spīnōsus, a, um, adj. [spina], full of thorns or prickles, thorny, prickly. I. Lit.:
caprae in spinosis locis pascuntur
, Varr. R. R. 2, 3, 8: herbae
, Ov. M. 2, 810: frutecta
, Plin. 30, 11, 30, 101: caulis
, id. 19, 3, 17, 47: folia
, id. 20, 23, 99, 262: cortex
, id. 12, 15, 34, 67: spinosior arbor
, id. 24, 12, 67, 109: fragmenta vertebrae
, Cels. 8, 9 fin.—II. Trop., thorny. 1. Of style, harsh, crabbed, obscure, confused, perplexed: Stoicorum spinosum disserendi genus
, Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 3: oratio
, id. de Or. 1, 18, 83.—Comp.: haec enim spinosiora prius ut confitear me cogunt
, Cic. Tusc. 1, 8, 16; id. Or. 32, 114; Varr. L. L. 8, 51 Müll.—Sup.: praeceptorum nodosissimae et spinosissimae disciplinae
, Aug. Doctr. Chr. 2, 37.—2. Of cares, stinging, galling. irritating: curae
, Cat. 64, 72; cf. spina, II.
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