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feteo

to have an ill smell

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Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

fētĕo — Lewis & Short

fētĕo (less correctly foetĕo, faetĕo), ēre, no

I perf., v. n. Sanscr. dhū-, dhūmas, smoke; Gr. qu=ma, qu/os; Lat. fumus; fetere (or foet-), for fovitere; cf. also foedus. Lit., to have an ill smell, to stink: an fetet anima uxori tuae? Plaut. As. 5, 2, 44; 78: fetere multo Myrtale solet vino, Mart. 5, 4, 1: abstineat a fetentibus acrimoniis allii vel caeparum, Col. 9, 14, 3.—

II Fig.: fi! fi! fetet Tuus mihi sermo, Plaut. Cas. 3, 6, 7: omnes civitates lupanaribus fetent, Salv. Gub. D. 7, 23.

In the wild

fetentem Petronius, Satyricon 70
fetentem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 40.2

Where it came from

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