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tĕro, trīvi, trītum, 3 ( perf. terii, acc. to Charis. p. 220 P.; perf. sync. tristi, Cat. 66, 30), v. a. [root ter; Gr. teirô, truô, tribô, to rub; cf. Lat. tribulare, triticum; akin to terên, tender, Lat. teres], to rub, rub to pieces; to bruise, grind, bray, triturate (syn.: frico, tundo, pinso).

Lit. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

In gen.: num me illuc ducis, ubi lapis lapidem terit? (i. e. into a mill), Plaut. As. 1, 1, 16:

lacrimulam oculos terendo vix vi exprimere,

Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 23:

teritur lignum ligno ignemque concipit attritu,

Plin. 16, 40, 77. § 208: sed nihil hederā praestantius quae [p. 1860] teritur, lauro quae terat, id. ib.:

aliquid in mortario,

id. 34, 10, 22, § 104:

aliquid in farinam,

id. 34, 18, 50, § 170:

bacam trapetis,

Verg. G. 2, 519:

unguibus herbas,

Ov. M. 9, 655:

dentes in stipite,

id. ib. 8, 369:

lumina manu,

Cat. 66, 30:

sucina trita redolent,

Mart. 3, 64, 5:

piper,

Petr. 74:

Appia trita rotis,

Ov. P. 2, 7, 44:

cibum in ventre,

i. e. to digest, Cels. 1 praef. med. — Poet.: labellum calamo, i. e. to rub one ' s lip (in playing), Verg. E. 2, 34:

calcemque terit jam calce Diores,

treads upon, id. A. 5, 324:

crystalla labris,

Mart. 9, 23, 7.—

In partic.

To rub grain from the ears by treading, to tread out, thresh:

frumentum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 13, 5:

milia frumenti tua triverit area centum,

Hor. S. 1, 1, 45:

area dum messes teret,

Tib. 1, 5, 22:

teret area culmos,

Verg. G. 1, 192; cf.:

ut patria careo, bis frugibus area trita est,

i. e. it has twice been harvest-time, Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 19.—

To cleanse or beautify by rubbing, to smooth, furbish, burnish, polish, sharpen (syn.:

polio, acuo): oculos,

Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 103:

crura mordaci pumice,

Ov. A. A. 1, 506:

hinc radios trivere rotis,

smoothed, turned, Verg. G. 2, 444:

vitrum torno,

Plin. 36, 26, 66, § 193:

catillum manibus,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 90:

tritus cimice lectus,

Mart. 11, 33, 1.—

To lessen by rubbing, to rub away; to wear away by use, wear out:

(navem) ligneam, saepe tritam,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 52:

hoc (tempus) rigidas silices, hoc adamanta terit,

Ov. Tr. 4, 6. 14:

ferrum,

to dull, id. M. 12, 167:

mucronem rubigine silicem liquore,

Prop. 2, 25 (3, 20), 15:

trita labore colla,

Ov. M. 15, 124:

trita subucula,

Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 96:

trita vestis,

id. ib. 1, 19, 38:

librum,

i. e. to read often, Mart. 8, 3, 4; 11, 3, 4; cf.:

quid haberet, Quod legeret tereretque viritim publicus usus?

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 92:

pocula labris patrum trita,

Mart. 11, 12, 3: ut illum di terant, qui primum olitor caepam protulit, crush, annihilate, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 681 P.—

Of persons, pass., to be employed in. occupied with:

nos qui in foro verisque litibus terimur,

Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 5:

litibus,

id. ib. 10, 12, 3.—

To tread often, to visit, frequent a way or place (cf.:

calco, calcito): angustum formica terens iter,

Verg. G. 1, 380:

iter propositum,

Prop. 2, 30 (3, 28), 14:

Appiam mannis,

Hor. Epod. 4, 14:

viam,

Ov. A. A. 1, 52; Lucr. 1, 927:

via trita pede,

Tib. 4, 13, 10:

ambulator porticum terit,

Mart. 2, 11, 2:

limina,

id. 10, 10, 2:

mea nocturnis trita fenestra dolis,

Prop. 4 (5), 7, 16:

nec jam clarissimorum virorum receptacula habitatore servo teruntur,

Plin. Pan. 50, 3: flavaeque terens querceta Maricae Liris, Claud. Cons. Prob. et Olybr 259. —

In mal. part.:

Bojus est, Bojam terit,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 108; so Prop. 3, 11 (4. 10), 30; Petr. 87. —

Trop. (freq. in good prose).

To wear away, use up, i. e. to pass, spend time; usu. to waste, spend in dissipation, etc. (syn.:

absumo, consumo): teritur dies,

Plaut. Truc. 5, 20:

diem sermone terere segnities merast,

id. Trin. 3, 3, 67:

naves diem trivere,

Liv. 37, 27, 8:

tempus in convivio luxuque,

id. 1, 57, 9:

tempus ibi in secreto,

id. 26, 19, 5:

omnem aetatem in his discendis rebus,

Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 123:

teretur interea tempus,

id. Phil. 5, 11, 30:

jam alteram aetatem bellis civilibus,

Hor. Epod. 16, 1:

omne aevum ferro,

Verg. A. 9, 609:

spe otia,

id. ib. 4, 271:

otium conviviis comissationibusque inter se,

Liv. 1, 57, 5. —

To expend, employ (late Lat.):

qui operam teri frustra,

Amm. 27, 12, 12. —

To exert greatly, exhaust:

ne in opere longinquo sese tererent, Liv 6, 8, 10: ut in armis terant plebem,

id. 6, 27, 7.—

Of language, to wear out by use, i. e. to render common, commonplace, or trite (in verb finit. very rare, but freq. as a P. a.):

jam hoc verbum satis hesterno sermone trivimus,

Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 18:

quae (nomina) nunc consuetudo diurna trivit,

id. Fin. 3, 4, 15.—

To tread under foot, i. e. to injure, violate a thing:

jurata deorum majestas teritur,

Claud. in Rufin. 1, 228. — Hence, P. a.: trītus, a, um.

Prop. of a road or way, oft-trodden, beaten, frequented, common:

iter,

Cic. Phil. 1, 3, 7:

via,

id. Brut. 81, 281:

quadrijugi spatium,

Ov. M. 2, 167. — Sup.:

tritissima quaeque via,

Sen. Vit. Beat. 1, 2. —

Fig.

Practised, expert:

tritas aures habere,

Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 4; so id. Brut. 32, 124.— Comp.:

tritiores manūs ad aedificandum perficere,

Vitr. 2, 1, 6. —

Of language, used often or much, familiar, common, commonplace, trite:

quid in Graeco sermone tam tritum atque celebratum est, quam, etc.,

Cic. Fl. 27, 65:

nomen minus tritum sermone nostro,

id. Rep. 2, 29, 52:

ex quo illud: summum jus summā injuriā factum est jam tritum sermone proverbium,

id. Off. 1, 10, 33.— Comp.:

faciamus tractando usitatius hoc verbum ac tritius,

Cic. Ac. 1, 7, 27:

compedes, quas induere aureas mos tritior vetat,

Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 152.

tondĕo, tŏtondi, tonsum, 2 (collat. form acc. to the third conj.: OVES TONDVNTVR, Calend. ap. Grut. 138), v. a. [for tomdeo; root in Gr. temnô, to cut], to shear, clip, crop, to shave, etc.

Lit.:

barbam et capillum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; so,

barbam,

Mart. 11, 39, 3:

capillum,

Ov. M. 8, 151:

cutem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 7:

os,

Cat. 61, 139:

ovem,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 28; Hor. Epod. 2, 16; Verg. G. 3, 443; Plin. 18, 27, 67, § 257; cf.

lanam,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 14:

naevos in facie,

Plin. 28, 4, 6, § 34: saltatrix tonsa, i. e. with hair clipped short (of the Consul Gabinius), Cic. Pis. 8, 18; cf.: tonsus puer or minister, cropped, i. e. common, mean, Mart. 10, 98, 9; 11, 11, 3: ad alta tonsum templa cum reum misit, i. e. acquitted (prop. without the untrimmed hair of accused persons), id. 2, 74, 3.—Mid.:

lavamur et tondemur et convivimus ex consuetudine,

Quint. 1, 6, 44.— Absol.:

ne tonsori collum committeret, tondere filias suas docuit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—And in reflex. sense:

ut decrescente lunā tondens calvus fiam,

shaving myself, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 2:

candidior postquain tondenti barba cadebat,

Verg. E. 1, 29.—

Transf.

To crop, lop, prune, trim:

ille comam mollis jam tondebat hyacinthi,

was cropping, Verg. G. 4, 137:

violas manu,

Prop. 3, 13, 29:

vitem in pollicem,

Col. 4, 21, 3:

oleas, vites,

Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 4:

balsamum,

id. 12, 25, 54, § 112:

ilicem bipennibus,

to lop, Hor. C. 4, 4, 57:

myrtos,

Quint. 8, 3, 8.—

To mow, reap:

tonsas cessare novales patiere,

after harvest, Verg. G. 1, 71:

nocte arida prata Tondentur,

id. ib. 1, 290:

tondeturque seges maturos annua partus,

Tib. 4, 1, 172:

tonsam verrit humum,

Ov. R. Am. 192; Sen. Phoen. 130.—

To crop, to graze, feed, or browse upon, to eat off; to pluck, gather, cull ( poet.):

ex uno tondentes gramina campo Lanigerae pecudes,

Lucr. 2, 660:

pabula (pecudes),

id. 2, 317:

dumeta (juvenci),

Verg. G. 1, 15:

campum late (equi),

id. A. 3, 538:

viridantia gramina morsu,

id. Cul. 49:

tondentes comam fluvii capellae,

App. M. 5, p. 169, 37:

jecur rostro (vultur),

Verg. A. 6, 598:

ales avida fecundum jecur,

Sen. Agam. 18; cf.

in a Greek constr.: illa autem, quae tondetur praecordia rostro Alitis,

Sil. 13, 839. —

As in Engl., to shave, fleece, for to deprive, plunder (very rare):

adibo hunc... itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 8:

tondens purpureā regna paterna comā,

Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 22.

vindēmĭa, ae, f. [vinum-demo], a grape - gathering, vintage.

Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 37 Müll.; id. R. R. 1, 54, 1; Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 16; Col. 3, 21, 5; 11, 2, 70; Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 315.— Plur., Plin. Ep. 9, 20, 2; Suet. Caes. 40.—

Transf.

Grapes, wine, vintage:

non eadem arboribus pendet vindemia nostris,

Verg. G. 2, 89:

mitis,

id. ib. 2, 522; cf.:

spumat plenis vindemia labris,

id. ib. 2, 6:

ursi fruge, fronde, vindemiā, pomis vivunt,

Plin. 10, 73, 93, § 199.—

Plur., the time of grape-gathering, the vintage season, M. Aurel. ap. Fronto, Ep. ad M. Caes. 5, 23 and 47.—

The gathering or harvest of similar things:

olearum,

Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 5:

turis,

id. 12, 14, 32, § 58:

mellis,

Col. 9, 15, 1; Plin. 11, 14, 14, § 35.

ENG cicadas, harvest flies

NLD zingcicaden

GER Singzikaden

FRA cigales

ENG American harvest mice

NLD Amerikaanse oogstmuizen [geslacht]

GER amerikanische Erntemause

FRA souris des moissons d'Amerique