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nasutus

nasutus · adj

that has a large nose, large-nosed

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

nāsūtus — Lewis & Short

nāsūtus, a, um, adj.nasus,

I that has a large nose, large-nosed (perh. not anteAug.).

I Lit.: depygis, nasuta, Hor. S. 1, 2, 93: manus, the elephant's trunk, Cassiod. Var. 10, 30.—

II Trop., sagacious, witty, satirical, censorious: nasutus nimium cupis videri: nasutum volo, nolo polyposum, Mart. 12, 37, 1; id. 13, 2, 1: nil nasutius est, id. 2, 54, 5: homo nasutissimus, Sen. Suas. 7 med.—Hence, adv.: nāsūtē, satirically, scornfully, wittily, sarcastically: tu qui nasute scripta destringis mea, Phaedr. 4, 7, 1: nasute negare, Sen. Ben. 5, 6, 5 (dub.; al. vafre).

In the wild

Nasutum Martial, Epigrammata 12.37.2
nasute Seneca, De Beneficiis 5.6.6
nasute Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.19.p5
nasuta Horace, Satyrarum libri 1.2.93
Nasutus Martial, Epigrammata 13.2.1
nasutissimus Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 7.12

6 of 9 attestations shown.

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