amussis: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>ămussis</b>: is, f. etym. unc.; perh. from am- and [[assis]] = [[axis]], a [[plank]], i. e. [[something]] [[flat]], [[straight]], moved [[about]] a [[surface]] in adjusting it (acc. amussim, v. Neue, Formenl. I. p. 198; abl. and plur. not used; [[only]] [[ante]]- and [[post]]-[[class]].),<br /><b>I</b> a [[rule]] or [[level]], used by carpenters, masons, etc.: [[amussis]]: [[tabula]], quā utuntur ad saxa leviganda, Varr. ap. Non. p. 9, 17; Aus. Idyll. 16, 11; cf. Sisenn. ap. [[Charis]]. p. 178 P.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 6 Müll. —In [[class]]. Lat. in the adv. phrases,<br /><b>I</b> ad ămussim (also written as one [[word]], ad-ămussim or ătamussim), according to a [[rule]] or [[level]], i. e. [[accurately]], [[exactly]]: [[adamussim]] non est [[numerus]], Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 26: talionem ad amussim aequiparare, Gell. 20, 1, 34 Hertz: ut judicium esse [[factum]] atamussim diceres, id. 1, 4, 1 id.—<br /><b>II</b> exămussim, according to a [[rule]], [[exactly]], [[quite]]: Ne ista [[edepol]], si vera haec loquitur, examussimst optuma, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 213 ([[with]] the forms [[adamussim]] and [[examussim]], cf. the Gr. [[ἐκποδών]] and [[ἐμποδών]]).