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famelicus

famelicus · adj

suffering from hunger

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Where it lives

What it meant

fămēlĭcus — Lewis & Short

fămēlĭcus, a, um, adj.fames,

I suffering from hunger, famished, starved (mostly ante- and post-class.; not in Cic.): lassus et famelicus, Plaut. Cas. 1, 42: famelica hominum natio, id. Rud. 2, 2, 6: ales, with rapacissima, Plin. 10, 10, 12, § 28: armenta, Juv. 14, 146.—As subst.: fămēlĭcus, i, m., a hungry or famished person, one suffering from hunger, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 69: ubi ille miser famelicus videt, etc., Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 29; Vulg. Job, 5, 5; plur., id. 1 Reg. 2, 5. —Transf.: convivium, meagre, App. M. 1, p. 114.—Adv.: † fămēlĭce, limochro/s, hungrily, Gloss. Philox.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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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.