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.)
dung (v.) Copy link Outline I. To emit the faecesII. To manure • dung (v.): I. To emit the faeces: căco, 1: Hor.: Phaedr. II. To manure: stercŏro, 1: v. to manure.
DUNG Copy link • DUNG 1. stercus (of persons and animals): fimus (any kind oj manure, as fimus siccus; i. e., ashes; [Vid: Schneider, Col., 3, 11, 4). Mouse dung, muscerda (Varr., ); murinum fimum (Plin.): sterquilinium, fimetum (a dung-hill): belonging to dung, stercorarius: full of dung, stercorosus: to manure with dung, stercorare: to manure sufficiently with dung, stercore satiare. 2. v. TRANS. agrum stercorare: laetificare (Cic.); to dung sufficiently, stercore satiare (Col.); solum pingui fimo saturare (Verg.). The act of dunging, stercoratio (Col.).