Nuncupo, núncupas, pen. cor. nuncupâre. Liuius. To name: to call by some name.Quod erat Deo natum, nomine ipsius Dei nuncupabant: vt quum fruges Cererem appellamus. Cicero. They called by the name of the God himselfe. Nuncupare.Cic.To pronounce and tell expressely: to make exyresse mention: to tell by name.Nuncupata voluntas dicitur lustiniano.A tesiament or will made by mouth before witnesses without writing.Vita nuncupata.Liu.Sicut verbis nuncupaui. Liuius. As I vttered expressely in wordes.Nuncupauit laturos eò spolia. Liuius. He pronounced and said that they, &c. Nuncupare. Plin. To recite: to reheatse.Vota nuncupare.Plin. iunior. Cic.To make a solemne vowe with formall wordes.Vota quæ nunquam solueret, nuncupauit.Cic.Nuncupatum testamentum. Plin. innior. A testament made by mouth before lawfull witnesses without writing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fēmĭna, ae, f. [from fe-, fev-, = Gr. fu/-w, to produce; whence: fetus, fecundus, faenus, felix; cf. Sanscr. bhuas, bhavas, to become; Lat. fi-o, fu-turus], a female.I.Lit.A. Of human beings, a female, woman (cf.: uxor, mulier, matrona; conjux, marita): ut a prima congressione maris et feminae ... ordiar, Cic. Rep. 1, 24: et mares deos et feminas esse dicitis, id. N. D. 1, 34, 95: ambiguus fuerit modo vir, modo femina Sithon, Ov. M. 4, 280; cf. Lucr. 4, 819: in claris viris et feminis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 27: pulchritudine eximiā femina, id. Div. 1, 25, 52: feminae notitiam habere, Caes. B. G. 6, 21 fin.: naturam feminarum omnem castitatem pati, Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; cf. id. Rep. 3, 10 fin.: bona, id. Phil. 3, 6, 16; cf.: praestantissima omnium feminarum, id. Fam. 5, 8, 2: sanctissima atque optima, id. Phil. 3, 6, 16: probatissima, id. Caecin. 4, 10: primaria, id. Fam. 5, 11, 2: decreta super jugandis feminis, Hor. C. S. 19: varium et mutabile semper femina, Verg. A. 4, 570: tunc femina simplex,
the female character undisguised
, Juv. 6, 327.—Adj.: inter quas Danai femina turba senis, Prop. 2, 31 (3, 29), 4.—Applied as a term of reproach to effeminate men, Ov. M. 12, 470; Sil. 2, 361; Suet. Caes. 22; Just. 1, 3; Curt. 3, 10 fin. al.—B. Of beasts, a female, she: (bestiarum) aliae mares, aliae feminae sunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128: lupus femina feta repente, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 2, 355, and ap. Non. 378, 18 (Ann. v. 70 and 73 ed. Vahl.); cf.: habendas triduum ferias et porco femina piaculum pati (shortly before, porca), Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57: sus, Col. 7, 9, 3: anas, Plin. 29, 5, 33, 104: anguis, Cic. Div. 1, 18, 36; 2, 29, 62: piscis, Ov. A. A. 2, 482; Plin. 9, 50, 74, 157; Ov. M. 2, 701.—II.Transf., in the lang. of nat. hist., of plants and minerals: mas in palmite floret, femina citra florem germinat tantum spicae modo, Plin. 13, 4, 7, 31; ib. 34; so of other plants, id. 16, 33, 60, 139; 16, 34, 62, 145: 21, 10, 32, 58 et saep.: in omni genere (carbunculorum) masculi appellantur acriores, et feminae languidius refulgentes, Plin. 37, 7, 25, 92; of the loadstone, id. 36, 16, 25, 128.—In mechanics, cardo femina, different from cardo masculus (v. cardo, 2), Vitr. 9, 9 med.—III. In gram., the feminine gender, Quint. 1, 6, 12; 1, 4, 24.
nuncŭpo, āvi, ātum, 1 (nuncupassit for nuncupaverit; v. in the foll.), v. a. [nomencapio], to call by name, to call, name (mostly ante-class. and post-Aug.; esp. in jurid. lang.: quem cultrix nomine nostro nuncupat, Ov. F. 1, 246; cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 153; Quint. 8, 3, 27 Spald. N. cr.; cf.: designo, declaro, dico): nuncupare nominare valere apparet in legibus, ubi nuncupatae pecuniae sunt scriptae; item in choro, in quo est: Aenea! Quis est qui meum nomen nuncupat? Item in Medio: Quis tu es mulier, quae me insueto nuncupāsti nomine?Varr. L. L. 6, 60 Müll.: CVM NEXVM FACIET MANCIPIVMQVE VTI LINGVA NVNCVPASSIT ITA IVS ESTO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; cf. Cic. Off. 3, 16, 65; cf. also id. de Or. 1, 57, 245: nuncupata pecunia est nominata, certa (nomine certa?), nominibus propriis pronuntiata, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.: tum illud, quod erat a deo donatum, nomine ipsius dei nuncupabant, Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60; cf. id. ib. 2, 28, 71: res utiles deorum vocabulis, id. ib. 1, 15, 38; Plin. 4, 12, 27, 91: Pompeii M. titulos omnes triumphosque hoc in loco nuncupari, id. 7, 26, 27, 95: aliquam reginam, Just. 24, 2, 9: aliquem Caesarem, Aur. Vict. Caes. 23, 2: Indigetem, Ov. M. 14, 608.—Poet.: alicujus fidem, to invoke, Pac. ap. Non. 90, 11 (Trag. Rel. p. 78, v 141 Rib.).—II. In partic. A. Nuncupare heredem, to name publicly before witnesses as one's heir: heredes palam, ita ut exaudiri possint nuncupandi sunt, Dig. 28, 1, 21: voce nuncupatus heres, Just. 12, 15 fin.; Dig. 37, 11, 8: nuncupatum testamentum, a testament drawn up in the presence of witnesses, in which the testator names his heirs, Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 5.— B. In gen., to constitute or appoint as one's heir, Suet. Claud. 4; id. Calig. 38: nec quia offendit alius, nuncuparis, sed quia ipse meruisti, Plin. Pan. 43.—C.To announce publicly, proclaim formally: consultatum pro rostris an in senatu an in castris adoptio nuncuparetur, Tac. H. 1, 17.— D.To pronounce vows publicly, to offer vows, to vow: vota nuncupata dicuntur, quae consules, praetores cum in provinciam proficiscuntur faciunt: ea in tabulas praesentibus multis referuntur. At Santra L. II. de verborum antiquitate satis multis nuncupata colligit non directo nominata significare, sed promissa et quasi testificata, circumscripta, recepta, quod etiam in votis nuncupandis esse convenientius, Paul. ex Fest. p. 173 Müll.; Cic. Phil. 3, 4, 11; Liv. 21, 63: cum consul more majorum secundum vota in Capitolio nuncupata, cum lictoribus paludatus profectus ab urbe esset, id. 41, 10: solvere vota nuncupata pro incolumitate exercitus, Val. Max. 1, 1 fin.
