flexuosus

flexŭōsus, a, um, adj. [2. flexus], 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.

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.

flexuosus [CL] 1 full of bends or turns, winding, sinuous. crebris insularum nemorumque intervenientibus ~is rivigarum anfractibus Felix Guthl. 24; flexosis geminum contractibus in caput errans / curro Hwætberht Aen. 49 (Anfibina serpens) 1; ~us, i. labilis, lubricus, curvus GlH F 476; per fila nervorum tortuosa ab ipsa cute corporis per vias ~as usque ad instrumentum tactus Bacon MS 102; nervi ‥ ~i sunt ut deserviant membris ad gerendum se faciliter versus qua[m]libet partem Ps.-Ric. Anat. 41 f. 32ra; Minos ‥ ad dedecus suum celandum Dedali arte sibi facta ~a domo, in ea Minotaurum inclusit Natura Deorum 121; in ~o solis circa lineam eclypticam discursu W. Donc. Aph. Phil. 3. 37; ‘cingit campus et vallis erecta clivo levi’, id est ascensu ~o parvo Trevet Troades 78; non quidem in directum sed per flectuosos calles ad mare festinabat Meaux I 188; 1565 nullus collegii prefectus ‥ in camisiis suis altioribus plicaturis illis serratis et ~is, quae vulgariter ruffae nuncupantur ‥ utetur StatOx 386. 2 flexible. R. Cold. Cuthb. 2 (v. bruchus); ~us, flexibilis Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 245. 3 amenable to influence or liable to change. c1241 sicut ‥ ~um ~o, sic malum malo convenire non potest Gros. Ep. 94 p. 293.

flexŭōsus, (15) a, um (flexus 2), tortueux, sinueux : Cato Agr. 33, 1 ; Cic. Nat. 2, 144 || -issimus Plin. 11, 200.

flexuosus , a, um. adj. s.
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flexuōsus adj.

• 2 flexus, full of turns, winding, tortuous, crooked: iter habere.