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segmentum

segmentum · n

a cutting

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

segmentum — Lewis & Short

segmentum, i, n.seco,

I a cutting, cut; a piece cut off, a slice (not ante-Aug.; mostly in the plur.; syn.: fragmentum, frustum).

I In gen.: crassior harena laxioribus segmentis terit et plus erodit marmoris, Plin. 36, 6, 9, § 53; so, segmenta percae, Aus. Idyll. 10, 118.—

II In partic.

A A strip, zone, segment of the earth: plura sunt haec segmenta mundi, quae nostri circulos appellavere, Graeci parallelos, Plin. 6, 34, 39, § 212: quinto continentur segmento Bactra, Iberia, Armenia, etc., id. 6, 34, 39, § 216.—

B In plur., strips of tinsel, brocade, etc., sewed around the bottom of a woman's dress; trimmings, bands, flounces, purfles, Ov. A. A. 3, 169: segmenta et longos habitus et flammea sumit, Juv. 2, 124: aurea, Val. Max. 5, 2, 1: crepitantia, Sed. Ep. 8, 6 med.

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