Fermento, tas, târe. Plin. To leauen: to meddle or mixe with, as leauen with dowe.Fermentare terram. Colum. To resolue the earth into duste, thatat may be light and lewse, not sadde and cloddie togther.
Fermentum, huius fermenti, n. g. Plin. Leauen.Iacêre in fermento, vel esse, pér translationem.Plaut.To bee al to be shrewed: to be verie angrie or melancholy: to haue piste on a nettle.In fermentum congerere terram. Colu. To breake the earth that it may rotte.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fermento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to cause to rise or ferment; in pass., to rise, ferment.I.Lit.: panis hordeaceus ervi aut cicerculae farina fermentabatur, Plin. 18, 11, 26, 103; cf.: fermentato pane ali, with fermented, leavened, or light bread, id. ib.: fermentatus panis, Cels. 2, 25 and 29: ficus sinitur fermentari, Col. 12, 17, 1; Vulg. Matt. 13, 33.—B.Transf., to cause to swell or rise up, to break up, loosen: terram, Varr. R. R. 1, 38, 1; Col. 2, 14, 1; 11, 3, 13.— II.Trop., to sour, spoil, Paul. Nol. Carm. 10, 263.—Hence, fermentātus, a, um, P. a.A.Lit. (acc. to I. B.), loose, soft: si deprimatur scobis in regesto, quod est fermentatum plus dipondio semisse, Col. 4, 1, 3: (optimi canes) debent esse pedibus magnis ... solo fermentato ac molli, Varr. R. R. 2, 9, 4.— B.Trop. (acc. to II.), corrupted, spoiled: mores, Prud. Apoth. 354.
fermentum, i, n. [contr. for fervimentum, from fervo, ferveo], that which causes fermentation, leaven, yeast, ferment.I.Lit., Plin. 18, 11, 26, 102; 18, 7, 12, 68: panis sine fermento,
unleavened bread
, Cels. 2, 24; 30; Vulg. Levit. 2, 4.—B.Transf.1.That which loosens the soil, Plin. 17, 21, 35, 159; cf. Col. 4, 1, 7.—2.A drink made of fermented barley, malt liquor, beer, Verg. G. 3, 380.—II.Trop., anger, passion (poet. and very rare): (uxor) nunc in fermento tota est, ita turget mihi, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 17; id. Merc. 5, 3, 3.—Poet. transf., of the cause of anger or vexation: accipe et istud Fermentum tibi habe, Juv. 3, 188.