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renes

The kidneys

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Where it lives

Curculio 1 · 1.62/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
De Medicina 5 · 0.49/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

rēnes — Lewis & Short

rēnes, renum (renium,

Plin. 21, 29, 103, § 175; 28, 8, 27, §§ 98 and 102; Scrib. Comp. 125; 143. —

I Sing. rēn, not used. — Collat. form rien, Plaut. ap. Fest. p. 276 Müll.; cf. Charis. p. 24 P.; Prisc. p. 645 P.), m. fre/nes; cf. Lid. and Scott, s. v. frh/n.

I The kidneys, reins, Cels. 4, 1, 10; Plin. 11, 37, 81, § 206: renum vitia, id. 23, 7, 63, § 121; Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 21: umores, qui ex renibus profunduntur, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 137; id. Tusc. 2, 25, 60: renes morbo temptantur acuto, Hor. S. 2, 3, 163; id. Ep. 1, 6, 28 al. — *

B The loins: accingere, Vulg. Exod. 12, 11; id. Dan. 10, 5: canis, Nemes. Cyn. 112.—

II Trop. (eccl. Lat.), the seat of the affections, Vulg. Psa. 138, 12; id. Apoc. 2, 23.

In the wild

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. rénés (scan p. 593; entry #9731).

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