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fōtus

Part., from foveo

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What it meant

1. fōtus — Lewis & Short

fōtus, a, um,

Part., from foveo.

2. fōtus — Lewis & Short

fōtus, ūs, m.foveo,

I a warming, fomenting (post-Aug., rare except in abl.).

I Lit., Amm. 21, 2, 3: solis, Lact. 1, 12, 7: decoctum eorum coeliacos juvat et potione et fotu, Plin. 23, 1, 10, § 14; 23, 9, 82, § 164: fotus ex aqua calida, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 7, 97.—In plur., Mart. Cap. 1, § 35: blandis, Prud. Ham. 304.—

II Trop.: queis gloria fotibus aucta Sic cluat, Prud. cont. Symm. 2, 584.

3. fötus — Walde–Hofmann

fötus, -üs „das Zeugen, Cebüren, Werfen; Sprößling, Kind“ (sowohl dicht. wie vulgär, Goldberger Cl. 20, 149), übtr. „Sproß, Schößling; Frucht, Ertrag? (seit Plaut); fétus, -a, -um „befruchtet, schwanger, trächtig“, auch „was geboren hat“ (s. IF. 47, 190, vgl. zur doppelten Bed av. dpubra- sowohl „schwanger“ als *veotókoc? [anders Schwyzer ZU. 6, 226 f£], gr. Bpepos, Eußpuov „ungeborene Frucht* und , Neugeborenes* … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. fötus, p. 522]

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