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Forms: alma (data provider: perseus), almae (data provider: perseus), almam (data provider: perseus), almaque (data provider: perseus), alme (data provider: perseus), almen (data provider: donatus-sup), almi (data provider: perseus), almis (data provider: perseus), almissima (data provider: donatus-sup), almissimus (data provider: donatus-sup), almo (data provider: perseus), almon (data provider: perseus), almoque (data provider: donatus-sup), almost (data provider: perseus), almum (data provider: perseus), almus (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- almus, a, um, adj. [alo], nourishing, affording nourishment, cherishing (poet. epithet of Ceres, Venus, and other patron deities of the earth, of light, day, wine, etc.; cf. Bentl. ad Hor. S. 2, 4, 13).—Hence, genial, restoring, reviving, kind, propitious, indulgent, bountiful, etc.: O Fides alma, Enn. ap. Cic. Off. 3, 29, 104 (Trag. v. 410 Vahl.):
nutrix
, Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 79: Venus
, Lucr. 1, 2; Hor. C. 4, 15, 31: mater terra
, Lucr. 2, 992; 5, 231 al.: Ceres
, Verg. G. 1, 7: Phoebe
, id. A. 10, 215: Cybele
, id. ib. 10, 220: ager
, id. G. 2, 330: vites
, refreshing
, id. ib. 2, 233 al.: Faustitas
, Hor. C. 4, 5, 18: Maia
, id. ib. 1, 2, 42: Musae
, id. ib. 3, 4, 42: dies
, id. ib. 4, 7, 7: sol
, id. C. S. 9: adorea, i.e. gloria, quae virtutem nutrit
, id. C. 4, 4, 41: Pales
, Ov. F. 4, 722: sacerdos
, Prop. 5, 9, 51: ubera
, Stat. Achill. 2, 383 al.
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