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sinuous

  • 1 sinuōsus

        sinuōsus adj.    [sinus], full of curves, full of folds, bent, winding, curved, sinuous, serpentine: flexu sinuoso, V.: volumina (serpentis), V.: arcus, O.: vestis, O.
    * * *
    sinuosa, sinuosum ADJ
    characterized by bending, winding; sinuous; full of folds/recesses

    Latin-English dictionary > sinuōsus

  • 2 flexuōsus

        flexuōsus adj.    [2 flexus], full of turns, winding, tortuous, crooked: iter habere.
    * * *
    flexuosa -um, flexuosior -or -us, flexuosissimus -a -um ADJ
    curved; with many curves in it, full of bends/turns; winding/sinuous/tortuous

    Latin-English dictionary > flexuōsus

  • 3 lūbricus

        lūbricus adj.    [GLA-], slippery: fastigium, L.: terga (colubri), V.: conchylia, slimy, H.— Plur n. as subst: per lubrica surgens, slippery ground, V. — Easily moved, sliding, gliding: (natura) lubricos oculos fecit: anguis, V.: amnis, gliding, O.—Fig., slippery, uncertain, hazardous, dangerous, critical: via (vitae): cupiditas dominandi: defensionis ratio: annus, fleeting, O.: patrias tentasti lubricus artīs, tricky, V.: Voltus nimium lubricus adspici, seductive, H.—As subst n.: in lubrico versari, in danger.
    * * *
    lubrica, lubricum ADJ
    slippery; sinuous; inconstant; hazardous, ticklish; deceitful

    Latin-English dictionary > lūbricus

  • 4 sinuosus

    sĭnŭōsus, a, um, adj. [1. sinus], full of bendings, windings, or curves; full of folds, bent, winding, sinuous ( poet. and in postAug. prose; syn. tortuosus).
    I.
    Lit.:

    flexus anguis,

    Verg. G. 1, 244:

    volumina (serpentis),

    id. A. 11, 753:

    Maeander flexibus,

    Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 113:

    arcus,

    Ov. Am. 1, 1, 23:

    vela,

    Prop. 4 (5), 1, 15; Ov. H. 8, 23:

    vestis,

    id. M. 5, 68:

    folia lateribus,

    Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 19 et saep.—
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    Of style, full of digressions, diffuse: ratio narrandi, * Quint. 2, 4, 3:

    quaestio,

    Gell. 14, 2, 13.—
    B.
    Sinuoso in pectore, in the recesses of my heart, Pers. 5, 27.—
    * Adv.: sĭnŭōsē, intricately, in a roundabout manner:

    dicere sinuosius atque sollertius,

    Gell. 12, 5, 6.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sinuosus

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