sentus
πέτρην κοιλαίνει ρανὶς ὕδατος ἐνδελεχείῃ → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
sentus: a, um, adj. id.,
I Lit., thorny, rough, rugged (poet. and very rare): loca senta situ, * Verg. A. 6, 462; Ov. M. 4, 436: vepres, Prud. in Symm. 2, 1039: rubus, id. Apoth. 123.—*
II Transf.: video sentum, squalidum, aegrum, pannis annisque obsitum (hominem), bristly, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 5.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
sentus,¹⁶ a, um (sentis), épineux, buissonneux : Prud. Symm. 2, 1039 || hérissé : loca senta situ Virg. En. 6, 462, lieux repoussants de moisissure [rappel de l’expr. homérique Ἀΐδεω δόμον εὐρώεντα], cf. Ov. M. 4, 436 || [en parl. d’une pers.] hérissé, hirsute : Ter. Eun. 236.
