The corpus record — Latin

faenĭ-sex

faenĭ-sex · m

a mower

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What it meant

faenĭ-sex — Lewis & Short

faenĭ-sex (fēn-, foen-), ĕcis (faenĭ-sĕca, ae, m.id..

Pers. 6, 40),

I Prop., a mower, Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 2; Col. 2, 17, 4: igitur cornu propter oleum ad crus ligato faenisex incedebat, Plin. 18, 28, 67, § 261.—

II Meton., poet. for countryman, rustic, Pers. 6, 40.

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.