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1 ārea
ārea ae, f [3 AR-], ground (for a house), a building - site: Ponendae domo quaerenda, H.: Iovis templique eius, L. — An open space, court, play - ground: campus et areae, H. — A raceground, O.— A threshing-floor: Libycae (as prov. of abundance), H.: frumentum ex areā metiri.— Fig., a field for effort: scelerum.* * *I IIopen space; park, playground; plot; threshing floor; courtyard; site; bald spot -
2 area
ārĕa (in inscriptions freq. ARIA, Inscr. Orell. 4130, etc.), ae, f [some comp. eraze = on the ground; Germ. Erde; Engl. earth, hearth; others, as Varro and Festus, connected it with areo, as if pr. dry land, as terra may be connected with torreo; so Bopp and Curt.], a piece of level ground, a vacant place, esp. in the town (syn.:I.planities, aequor): in urbe loca pura areae,
Varr. L. L. 5, § 38 Müll: area proprie dicitur locus vacuus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 11 Müll.: locus sine aedificio in urbe area;rure autem ager appellatur,
Dig. 50, 16, 211.Lit., ground for a house, a building-spot:II.si Ponendae domo quaerenda est area primum,
Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 13. arearum electio, Vitr. 1, 7, 1:pontifices si sustulerint religionem, aream praeclaram habebimus,
Cic. Att. 4, 1 fin.; Liv. 4, 16; 1, 55; Suet. Vesp. 8; Dig. 7, 4, 10 al.—Transf.A.A vacant space around or in a house, a court (syn. spatium):B.resedimus in areā domŭs,
Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 4; so id. ib. 7, 27, 10; Vulg. 3 Reg. 22, 10; Dig. 43, 22, 1; 8, 2, 1 al.—An open space for games, an open play-ground (syn.:C.campus, curriculum),
Hor. C. 1, 9, 18.— Hence, in gen., a field for effort, etc. (syn.:campus, locus, q. v.),
Ov. Am. 3, 1, 26, and trop.:area scelerum,
i. e. where vices have full scope, Cic. Att. 9, 18.—Also, a raceground, Ov. F. 4, 10 (cf. id. ib. 2, 360); and trop., the course of life:vitae tribus areis peractis (i. e. pueritiā, juventute, senectute),
Mart. 10, 24.—A threshing floor (among the ancients, an open space in the vicinity of the house).1.Lit.:2.neque in segetibus neque in areis neque in horreis,
Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 8; Hor. C. 1, 1, 10; id. S. 1, 1, 45; Tib. 1, 5, 22; Vulg. Gen. 50, 10; ib. Isa. 21, 10. Its construction may be learned from Cato, R. R. 91 and 129; Varr. R. R. 1, 51; Verg. G. 1, 178 sqq. Voss; Col. 5, 1, 4; 5, 2, 20; and Pall. 1, 36 al.—Trop., of the body of Christians, as subject to separation, judgment (eccl. Lat.), Vulg. Matt. 3, 12; Aug. Ver. Rel. 5.—D.The halo around the sun or moon: tales splendores Graeci areas (i. e. halônas) vocavere, Sen. Q. N. 1, 2.—E.A bed or border in a garden, Varr. L. L. 6, § 64 Müll.; Col. 11, 3; Plin. 19, 4, 20, § 60; Pall. 1, 34.—F.A fowling-floor, Plaut. As. 1, 3, 64: aedes nobis area est;G.auceps sum ego,
id. ib. 1, 3, 67.—A burying-ground, church-yard, Tert. ad Scap. 3. —H.A bald spot upon the head, baldness, Cels. 6, 4; Mart. 5, 50. -
3 arealis
arealis, areale ADJof/pertaining to (area) open space/threshing floor/courtyard; areal -
4 aria
open space; park, playground; plot; threshing floor; courtyard; site; bald spot -
5 arealis
ārĕālis, e, adj. [area], of or pertaining to a threshing-floor:cribrum,
Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 166. -
6 halos
hălōs, ō, f., = halôs (a round threshing-floor), a circle round the sun or moon, a halo, pure Lat. corona:circa solem visum coloris varii circulum, qualis esse in arcu solet. Hunc Graeci halo vocant: nos dicere coronam aptissime possumus, etc.,
Sen. Q. N. 1, 2, 1.—Called also hălysis (prob. corrupted from halôs), App. de Mundo, p. 64, 16.
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