flexuosus
Ἀναξαγόρας δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Anaxagoras used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Anaxagoras said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
flexŭōsus: a, um, adj. 2. flexus,
I full of turns or windings, tortuous, flexuous, crooked, winding.
I Lit.: flexuosum iter habet auditus, ne quid intrare possit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: Taurus mons, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98: volatus hirundini, id. 10, 24, 35, § 73.—Sup.: intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 200.—*
II Trop.: fraudes, Prud. Cath. 6, 143.—* Adv.: flexu-ōse, tortuously: si flexuose volitet flamma, Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
flexŭōsus,¹⁵ a, um (flexus 2), tortueux, sinueux : Cato Agr. 33, 1 ; Cic. Nat. 2, 144 || -issimus Plin. 11, 200.
Latin > German (Georges)
flexuōsus, a, um (flexus, us), krümmungsreich, voll Krümmungen, iter, des Ohres, Cic.: u. so tramites (aurium), Arnob.: excessus, Solin. u. Amm.: fossarum ambitus (Plur.), Val. Max.: Taurus mons, Plin.: cervorum cursus directior, vulpeculae flexuosus, Ambros. in psalm. 118. serm. 2. § 2: Superl., intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 200. – übtr., fraudes, Prud. cath. 6, 143.
Latin > English
flexuosus flexuosa -um, flexuosior -or -us, flexuosissimus -a -um ADJ :: curved; with many curves in it, full of bends/turns; winding/sinuous/tortuous
