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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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  • s. On the finger or toes, unguis. Long nails, ungues eminentes (Ov., A.A., 1, 519; et nihil emineant ungues, i. e., one ought not to have long nails): dirty nails, ungues sordidi (loc. cit., et sint sine sordibus ungues): to pare the nails, ungues recidere, or resecare, or subsecare: to bite the nails, ungues rodere (Hor., Sat., 1, 10, 71): to move not a nail’s breadth, aliquo loco non unguem latum excedere: to swerve not a nail’s breadth from anything, transversum unguem ab aliqua re non recedere.
  • A small spike or stud, clavus. A large nail for fastening beams, clavus trabalis: shoe nails, clavi caligares: to drive a nail, clavum figere or defigere in aliqua re; clavum adigere in aliquid: you have hit the right nail on the head, rem acu tetigisti (Plaut., Rud., 5, 2, 19): to be a nail in one’s coffin, causam mortis esse.
  • A measure of length, *digiti duo cum quadrante.
2. v. clavis affigere aliquid: clavis firmare or munire aliquid; to anything, alicui rei or ad aliquid; clavis configere aliquid aliqua re (to fasten anything with nails).