The corpus record — Latin

rē^-clīvis

rē^-clīvis · adj

leaning backwards

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What it meant

rē^-clīvis — Lewis & Short

rē^-clīvis, e (also -vus, a, um), adj.clivus,

I leaning backwards, sloping, inclined (late Lat.): campo ad solem reclivi, Pall. 1, 6, 15: tabulae, id. 7, 2, 3 (al. reclines).—Form reclivus: nave reclivā, Ven. Fort. Mart. 3.

Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.