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|gf=<b>pĕtŭlantĭa</b>,¹¹ æ, f. ([[petulans]]), propension à attaquer,<br /><b>1</b> insolence, impudence, effronterie : Cic. Rep. 4, 6 ; Cat. 2, 25 ; Pis. 31 ; CM 36 ; Cæc. 103<br /><b>2</b> étourderie, légèreté : Pl. Cist. 672 ; Suet. Tib. 61<br /><b>3</b> [en parl. des anim.] fougue, pétulance : Col. Rust. 7, 6, 4 || [fig.] [[petulantia]] ramorum Plin. 16, 124, exubérance des rameaux ; morbi Gell. 12, 5, 9, violence de la maladie.
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Revision as of 07:44, 14 August 2017

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pĕtŭlantĭa: ae, f. petulans.
I Lit., sauciness, freakishness, impudence, wantonness, petulance (class.; syn. lascivia): itaque a petendo petulantia, a procando, id est poscendo, procacitas nominata est, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 23, 18: petulantia et libido magis est adulescentium quam senum, id. Sen. 11, 36: petulantia et audacia, id. Caecin. 35, 103; cf.: te non ulla meae laesit petulantia linguae, Prop. 1, 16, 37.—In plur.: Naevius ... cum ob assiduam maledicentiam et probra in principes civitatis ... in vincula conjectus esset ... in his fabulis, delicta sua et petulantias dictorum, quibus multos ante laeserat, diluisset, insolent language, libels, Gell. 3, 3, 15.—
   B In a milder sense, carelessness, heedlessness (ante-class.): linguae, Suet. Tib. 61; Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 3.—
II Transf.
   A Of animals, viciousness: cornuti fere perniciosi sunt propter petulantiam, Col. 7, 6, 4.—
   B Of things, exuberance, luxuriance: ramorum, Plin. 16, 30, 53, § 124: morbi, violence, Gell. 12, 5, 9.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

pĕtŭlantĭa,¹¹ æ, f. (petulans), propension à attaquer,
1 insolence, impudence, effronterie : Cic. Rep. 4, 6 ; Cat. 2, 25 ; Pis. 31 ; CM 36 ; Cæc. 103
2 étourderie, légèreté : Pl. Cist. 672 ; Suet. Tib. 61
3 [en parl. des anim.] fougue, pétulance : Col. Rust. 7, 6, 4 || [fig.] petulantia ramorum Plin. 16, 124, exubérance des rameaux ; morbi Gell. 12, 5, 9, violence de la maladie.