alaternus
πρὸ συντριβῆς ἡγεῖται ὕβρις → pride goeth before destruction, pride comes before a fall, pride goes before a fall, pride goeth before a fall, pride wenteth before a fall, pride cometh before a fall, pride comes before the fall
Latin > English
alaternus alaterni N F :: evergreen shrub, Buckthorn (used for pigments (e.g., sap-green)/cathartic)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ălăternus: i, f. perh. akin to Germ. Erle; Engl. alder,
I a shrub: Rhamnus Alaternus, Linn.; Col. 7, 6; Plin. 16, 26, 45, § 108. >
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ălăternus, ī, f., nerprun [arbrisseau] : Plin. 16, 108.
Latin > German (Georges)
alaternus (alternus), ī, f., eine Pflanze, immergrüner Wegdorn (Rhamnus Alaternus, L.), weil der männl. Baum keine Samenfrucht trägt, unter die arbores infelices gerechnet, Tarquit. Prisc. b. Macr. sat. 2, 16 (3, 20), 3 (wo alternus). Col. 7, 6, 1 (wo Variante alternus). Plin. 16, 108.
Latin > Chinese
alaternus, i. f. :: 樹名
