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nĕfrens

nĕfrens · adj

that cannot bite, that has no teeth

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What it meant

nĕfrens — Lewis & Short

nĕfrens, dis, adj.ne-frendo,

I that cannot bite, that has no teeth: nefrendes arietes dixerunt, quod dentibus frendere non possint. Alii dicunt nefrendes infantes esse nondum frendentes, id est frangentes. Livius: Quem ego nefrendem alui lacteam immulgens opem. Sunt qui nefrendes testiculos dici putent, quos Lanuvini appellant nebrundines, Graeci nefrou/s, Praenestini nefrones, Paul. ex Fest. p. 163 Müll.; cf.: coeperunt efferre porcum castratum, quem nefrendum vocabant, id est quasi sine renibus, Fulg. Expos. Serm. Antiq. p. 559, 32: porci amisso nomine lactentis dicuntur nefrendes ab eo, quod nondum fabam frendere possunt, id est frangere, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 17.

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