fat (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ădeps, ĭpis, m. (solid fat, without fleshy matter)2. sēbum or sēvum (a harder kind of fat; suet)3. pingue, is, n. (of a more fleshy kind than adeps or sevum)4. pinguĭtūdo, pinguēdo, ĭnis, f. (= preced. rare)5. arvīna (a rare word)6. lārĭdum or lardum • fat (subs.): 1. ădeps, ĭpis, m. (solid fat, without fleshy matter): hog's, bear's, fox's f., a. suillus, ursinus, vulpinus, Varr.: Plin.: the f. of all animals is void of feeling, a. cunctis sine sensu, Plin. 11, 37, 85: also found in pl.: to remove the f. from a man's body (by amputation), adipes alicui detrahere, Plin. l. c. Fig.: I saw that I had not to dread the drowsiness of Lentulus or the f. (stolidity) of Cassius, providebam mihi nec Lepidi somnum, nec Cassii adipem esse pertimescendam, Cic. Cat. 3, 7, 16. 2. sēbum or sēvum (a harder kind of fat; suet): the f. of horned animals is sebum, that of hornless ones adeps, cornigera sebo pinguescunt, non cornigera, adipe, Plin. 11, 37, 85: to get a boiling of f. (tallow) out of (fig.), s. excoquere, Pl. 3. pingue, is, n. (of a more fleshy kind than adeps or sevum): they take all possible care to swell (the stallions) with firm f. (i. e. not loose or flabby), omnes impendunt curas denso distendere pingui, Virg. G. 3, 124: f. of bulls, lions, and panthers, taurorum, leonum, ac pantherarum pinguia, Plin. 4. pinguĭtūdo, pinguēdo, ĭnis, f. (= preced. rare): in most animals the f. is without feeling, plerisque animalium est pinguitudo sine sensu, Plin. 11, 37, 85: v. fatness. 5. arvīna (a rare word): they smear their bright arrows with f. (grease), spicula lucida tergent a. pingui, Virg. Aen. 7. 627. 6. lārĭdum or lardum: v. bacon.