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menstruus

menstruus · adj

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Where it lives

Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 2 · 4.2/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Tyranni Triginta 1 · 1.52/10k
De Architectura 8 · 1.39/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Medicina 13 · 1.27/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

menstrŭus — Lewis & Short

menstrŭus, a, um, adj.mensis.

1 Of or belonging to a month, that happens every month, monthly.

A In gen. (class.): ferias menstruas edicere, Varr. L. L. 6, § 13 Müll.: usura, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 3: ventorum ratio, Plin. 2, 47, 48, § 128.—

2 Subst.

(a) menstrŭa, ōrum, n., the monthly sacri fices: ad menstrua solvenda montem ascendunt, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 492, 32. —

(b) menstrŭum, i, n.: menstruum meum Calend Septembr finitur, a monthly term of office, monthly service, Plin. Ep. 10, 24, 3.—

B In partic., of or belonging to monthly purgations, to menstruation, menstruous: menstruae purgationes, Plin. 32, 10, 46, § 132: cursus, id. 11, 39, 94, § 230: sanguis, Vulg. Lev. 15, 25. —As subst.: menstrŭa, ōrum, n., monthly purgations, menses, catamenia, Cels. 6, 6, 38: ciere, Plin. 22, 21, 30, § 65: sedare, id. 20, 14, 54, § 154.—In sing., Plin. 28, 7, 23, § 78.—Of female animals: canis, menstruous, Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 98.—

II That lasts a month, for the space of a month, monthly: vita menstrua. Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 30: spatium, id. N. D. 1, 31, 87: menstrua cibaria. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 30, § 72.—As subst.: men-strŭum, i, n., a month's provisions, Liv. 44, 2.

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