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nervosus

nervosus · adj

full of sinews, sinewy, nervous

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Where it lives

De Medicina 14 · 1.37/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 7 · 0.18/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

nervōsus — Lewis & Short

nervōsus, a, um, adj.nervus,

I full of sinews, sinewy, nervous.

I Lit.: nervosa et lignea dorcas, Lucr. 4, 1161: poples, Ov. M. 6, 256: exilitas, Plin. 11, 37, 86, § 214: partes, id. 23, 3, 34, § 69: nervosius illud, i. e. membrum virile, Cat. 67, 27.—

B Transf., of plants, full of fibres, fibrous: cauliculi, Plin. 21, 9, 30, § 54; 27, 12, 97, § 123.—

II Trop.

A Nervous, vigorous, energetic in expression: quis Aristotele nervosior, Cic. Brut. 31, 121.—

B Vigorous, bold: vivacitas, Val. Max. 8, 13, 4: juventus, Prud. c. Sym. 2, 320.—Hence, adv.: nervō-sē, strongly, boldly, vigorously, energetically: vigilanter nervoseque aliquem subornare, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 6.—Comp.: nervosius dicere, Cic. Or. 36, 127: nervosius aliquid disserere, id. Off. 3, 29, 106.

In the wild

nervosior Cicero, Brutus 121.p1
nervosus Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.256
nervosi Celsus, De Medicina 5.26.p29
nervosis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.10.p5
nervosius Cicero, Orator 127.p1
nervoseque Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.23.6

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Where it came from

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