dung (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. stercus, ŏris, n. (of all kinds of animals)2. fĭmus or fĭmum (a less offensive word than stercus3. merda (esp. of birds or smaller animals • dung (subs.): 1. stercus, ŏris, n. (of all kinds of animals): horse d., s. equinum, Varr.: doves' d., s. columbinum, Varr.: Plin.: Cic.: v. manure. 2. fĭmus or fĭmum (a less offensive word than stercus: also used of slippery mud, Virg. A. 5, 332): they use cow-d. instead of fire-wood, f. bubulo pro lignis utuntur, Liv.: Plin. 3. merda (esp. of birds or smaller animals: often pl.): to have one's head soiled with birds'-d., merdis caput inquinari corvorum, Hor.: Phaedr. Phr.: to count a thing but d., *aliquid pro nihilo habere; vili, flocci, pendere: v. to value. (The Vulg. has arbitror ut stercora, Philipp. iii. 8.)