kiss (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. suāvium (most suitable word for ordinary use)2. bāsium (esp. an amorous or lewd k.)3. oscŭlum (meton. • kiss (subs.): 1. suāvium (most suitable word for ordinary use): give Attica a k. from me, Atticae meis verbis suavium des, Cic. Att. 16, 11, extr. Dimin. suaviolum, Cat. 2. bāsium (esp. an amorous or lewd k.): to shower on any one a host of k.s, alicui spississima b. impingere, Petr. 31, init.: Mart. Dimin., basiŏlum, Petr.: Apul. 3. oscŭlum (meton.: lit. a little mouth, lip: chiefly poet.): to give k.s, oscula dare, Petr. 115 (bono sensu): to imprint k.s, o. figere, Virg. Aen. 1, 687: to take or snatch k.s, o. carpere, Ov. H. 11, 117; sumere, ib. 13, 141: to fling a k., o. jacere, Tac. H. 1, 36: to snatch the first k., oscula praeripere, Lucr. 3, 909.
kiss (v.) Copy link Outline 1. suāvior, 1 (= suavium do2. bāsio, 13. oscŭlor, 1 (the term most suitable for the higher style of composition • kiss (v.): 1. suāvior, 1 (= suavium do: v. preced. art., 1): Cic.: Cat. So comp. dissuavior (intens.): I will k. your eyes out, dissuaviabor tuos oculos, Cic. ad Tir. Fam. 16, 27. 2. bāsio, 1: Cat.: Petr. (cf. preced. art., 2). 3. oscŭlor, 1 (the term most suitable for the higher style of composition: not poet.): to embrace and k. any one, aliquem amplecti (complecti) atque o., Cic. Rep. 6, 14: the proper word to denote the kiss of homage, cf. Cic. Verr. 4, 43, 94: Just. So comp. exosculor (to k. affectionately, earnestly): Suet.: Tac. Verbal adj. osculabundus, kissing repeatedly, Suet. Vit. 2, fin.
KISS Copy link • KISS 1. v. osculari, suaviari, basiare aliquem [SYN. in KISS, s.] . To kiss a person on his arrival, osculis aliquem excipere: to kiss anybody repeatedly and heartily, aliquem exosculari (to kiss anybody away): aliquem dissuaviari (to kiss anybody’s mouth, hand, cheeks, etc., as it were, to kiss to pieces). To give anybody one’s hand to kiss, osculandam dextram alicui porrigere; dextram osculis aversam porrigere (after Plin., 11, 45, 103): to kiss anybody’s hand, manum alicujus ad os referre; dextram alicujus ad oscujum referre; dextram aversam osculis appetere: to kiss a person’s hand repeatedly, manum alicujus exosculari; dextram alicujus osculis fatigare: to introduce anybody to kiss the king’s hand, admovere aliquem dextrae regis: to have an audience to kiss the king’s hand, admitti ad dextram regis (after Curt., 6, 5, 4): to kiss the ground, terram contingere osculo: to kiss one another, osculari inter se (poetical oscula jungere and labella cum labellis comparare): kiss Attica for me, Atticae meis verbis suavium des. 2. s. osculum (general term, on the mouth, the cheek, or the hand): suavium (a tender kiss on the mouth or cheek): basium (a smacking kiss). To give anybody a kiss, osculum, or suavium, or basium alicui dare; osculum alicui ferre or offerre; basium or suavium alicui imprimere (Martisalis, 10, 42, 5; Apul. Met., 2, p. 119, 6); osculum alicui applicare (Ov., Fast., 4, 851); osculum alicui ingerere (unperceived, and against the will of anybody, Suet., Gramm., 23): to give one kiss after another, suavia super suavia cidare; spississima basia alicui impingere: to take a kiss, osculum sumere or capere: to steal a kiss from anybody, osculum alicui rapere; suavium alicui surripere: to blow kisses to anybody, a facie manus jactare (Juv., 3, 106).