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Fetor

Fetor · m

an offensive smell

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Where it lives

Clodius Albinus 1 · 3.7/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

fētor — Lewis & Short

fētor (faet-, foet-), ōris, m.feteo.

I Prop., an offensive smell, a stench: jacebat in suorum Graecorum fetore atque vino, Cic. Pis. 10, 22; Col. 12, 18, 3: fetores oris emendare, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 100: nec fetet fetor amanti, Paul. Nol. Carm. 18, 348.—

II Fig., foulness, noisomeness: reconditorum verborum fetores, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 86: fetorem haereticae pestis evomuit, Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 5, 47.

In the wild

fetorem Historia Augusta, Clodius Albinus 9
fetore Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.15
fetorem Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.12.p2
fetore Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.14.p4
fetoribus Suetonius, Divus Augustus 86.1
Fetorem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.17.p2

Where it came from

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