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Morphology- Lemmata
Forms: minacem (data provider: perseus), minaces (data provider: perseus), minaci (data provider: perseus), minacibus (data provider: perseus), minacior (data provider: perseus), minacis (data provider: perseus), minacissimus (data provider: perseus), minaciter (data provider: perseus), minacius (data provider: perseus), minax (data provider: perseus), minaxque (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- mĭnax, ācis, adj. [1. minor], lit., jutting out, projecting. I. Lit. (poet.):
minaci Pendentem scopulo
, overhanging, projecting
, Verg. A. 8, 668: robur saxi
, overlying, incumbent
, Lucr. 1, 881.—II. Trop., threatening, menacing, full of threats or menaces (class.). A. Of living things: Indutiomarus iste minax atque arrogans
, Cic. Font. 12, 36; Quint. 11, 3, 72: vituli nondum metuenda fronte minaces
, Ov. Am. 3, 13, 15.— Sup.: adversus barbaros minacissimus
, Suet. Calig. 51.—B. Of inanimate things: aequor saevum minaxque
, Ov. H. 19, 85: fluvii
, Verg. G. 3, 77: pestilentia minacior
, Liv. 4, 52 litterae, Cic. Fam. 16, 11, 2: vox
, Hor. C. 1, 10, 10: unda
, id. ib. 1, 12, 31: genus dicendi
, Quint. 11, 1, 3: vultus
, significant
, Calp. 4, 1: fortuna
, Juv. 10, 52.—Hence, adv.: mĭnācĭter, threateningly, menacingly, with threats or menaces (class.): adversarios minaciter terrere
, Cic. de Or. 1, 20, 90: dictum
, Quint. 1, 5, 9.—Comp.: minacius dicere quam facere
, Cic. Phil. 5, 8, 21.
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