Lewis & Short

No entries found. Showing closest matches:

* sub-lūcānus, a, um, adj. [lux], towards day, towards morning: temporibus, Plin. 11, 12, 12, § 30.

sub-lūcĕo, ēre, v. n., to shine a little, to gleam faintly, to glimmer (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): aries sublucet corpore totus, Cic. Arat. 289: crepuscula sublucent, Ov. Am. 1, 5, 5: si fragmenta (picis), subluceant, Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 127: (liquor) nigrantis rosae colore sublucens, id. 9, 36, 60, § 126: violae sublucet purpura nigrae, Verg. G. 4, 275; cf.: candida nec mixto sublucent ora rubore, Ov. H. 21, 217.

* sub-lūcĭdus, a, um, adj., somewhat light, lightish: lucus, App. M. 6, p. 174, 24.

sub-lūco, āre, 1, v. a. [lux], to trim, cut away, thin out the branches of a tree, to admit light: sublucare arbores est ramos earum supputare, et veluti subtus lucem mittere, Fest. p. 348 Müll.: arbornisi a domino sublucari non potest, isque conveniendus est ut eam sublucet, Paul. Sent. 5, 6, 13; cf. colluco.

sub -lūgĕo, ēre, v. n., to lament a little, Inscr. Cenot. Pis. ap. Orell. 643.

sub-lŭo, no perf., lūtum, ĕre, v. a., to wash or bathe underneath (very rare; not in Cic.).

  1. I. Lit.: aliquid aquā calidā, Cels. 4, 15; Col. 6, 32, 1: inguina, Mart. 6, 81, 2: subluto podice, id. 2, 42, 1.
  2. II. Transf., of rivers, to flow along the base of, to wash the foot of: hunc montem flumen subluebat, Caes. B. C. 3, 97: radices collis (flumina), id. B. G. 7, 69.
    Pass.: Asia, quā Hellesponto, quā rubro mari subluitur, Curt. 9, 6, 20.

sublustris, e, adj. [sub-lux], giving some light, having a faint light, glimmering (not ante-Aug., and very rare).

  1. I. Lit.: nox, Hor. C. 3, 27, 31; Liv. 5, 47: umbra (noctis), Verg. A. 9, 373; Val. Fl. 3, 141.
  2. * II. Trop.: eloquentiae Latinae lumina, Gell. 13, 24, 12.

sub-lūtĕus, a, um, adj., somewhat yellow, yellowish (post-class.): color, App. Flor. p. 348, 29: color purpurei luminis suffectione subluteus, Arn. 5, 164.

sublūtus, a, um, Part. of subluo.

sublŭvĭes, em, e, f. [subluo, that which is washed off], filth, dirt (post-Aug.).

  1. I. In gen.: via subluvie caenosā lubrica, App. M. 9, p. 221, 2: limosa, Amm. 15, 4.
  2. II. In partic., a disease in the feet of sheep, the foul, Col. 7, 5, 11; so in the feet of men, Plin. 30, 9, 23, § 80.
    Called also sublŭvĭum, ii, n., Marc. Emp. 18 fin.