The corpus record — Latin

faeneus

faeneus · adj

of hay

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k

What it meant

faenĕus — Lewis & Short

faenĕus (fēn-, foen-), a, um, adj.faenum, I.,

I of hay (very rare): homines faeneos in medium ad tentandum periculum projectos, men of hay, hay effigies, Cic. Fragm. Or. Cornel. 1, 1; cf.: simulacra effigie hominum ex faeno fieri solebant, quibus objectis ad spectaculum praebendum tauri irritarentur, Ascon. p. 62 ed. Orell.—

II Fig.: faeneus ille Platonicus Antiochus, August. c. Acad. 3, 18.

In the wild

faeneos Historia Augusta, Pescennius Niger 12

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.