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spumosus

spumosus, full of foam, covered with foam

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

spūmōsus, a, um: adj. (spūma), full of foam; foaming, 6.174.
spūmōsus, a, um, adj. [spuma].
  • Lit., full of foam, foaming (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): unda, Verg. A. 6, 174: litora, Cat. 64, 121: undae, Ov. M. 1, 570: aequor, Luc. 2, 627: morsus equi, Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 548: spumosus nec sanguineus (pulmo), Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188.—Comp.: Addua, Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 458.—*
  • II Trop.: carmen, frothy, bombastic, Pers. 1, 96.

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