The corpus record — Latin

varicosus

varicosus · adj

full of dilated veins

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k

What it meant

vărĭcōsus — Lewis & Short

vărĭcōsus, a, um, adj.varix,

I full of dilated veins, varicose: centuriones, Pers. 5, 189: haruspex, Juv. 6, 397: Arpinas, i. e. Cicero, Sid. Ep. 5, 5 (cf. Quint. 11, 3, 143; and Vatin. ap. Macr. S. 2, 3).—* Adv.: vă-rĭcōsē, full of dilated veins: varicosius onera portare, Fest. s. v. muli marini, p. 149 Müll. (acc. to others, from varicus or varico, with feet spread apart).

In the wild

varicosus Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.397

Where it came from

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