mouth (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Of men or animals1. os, ōris, n.2. rostrum (the beak of a bird; snout of an animal, as the pig, goat, etc.)II. Of things1. os (by analogy with the human mouth2. ostium (of rivers, etc.)3. căput, ĭtis, n. (more strictly, the source of a river, but also found to denote the other extremity)4. ădĭtus, ūs (access, entrance) • mouth (subs.): I. Of men or animals: 1. os, ōris, n.: the m. is admirably fitted for receiving all these (food, drink, air), ad haec omnia percipienda os est aptissimum, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134: with loaded m. (of the mother bird), ore pleno, Juv. 10, 232: Hor. (But os is often used in wider sense: v. face, I. 2.) Phr.: 'tis in everybody's m. (common talk), in ore est omni populo, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 13.: so, habere aliquid in ore, to have it perpetually in one's m. (be ever talking of it), Cic. Fam. 6, 18, extr. 2. rostrum (the beak of a bird; snout of an animal, as the pig, goat, etc.): v. beak, snout. Faceté, of the m. (muzzle or snout) of a human being, Pl. Men. 1, 1, 13. Phr.: to open a broad m., rictum diducere, Juv. 10, 230: not to open the mouth too wide (in speaking), ne immodicus hiatus rictum distendat (al. discindat), Quint. 1, 11, 9: generally, to open the m., hiare, Juv. 10, 231: Hor.: so, with m. wide open, hianti ore, Curt. 4, 16, med.: to look at a horse's m., equi dentes inspicere (v. horse, Phr.): to shut one's m. about anything, tacere, reticere (keep a thing back): also mussare, Pl. Aul. 2, 1, 12; mussitare, id. Mil. 2, 5, 67 (v. silent, to be). II. Of things: 1. os (by analogy with the human mouth: any mouth-like aperture): an aperture with a wide m., lato o. fenestra, Virg. Aen. 2, 482: vessels with a small m., vascula o. angusti, Quint. 1, 2, 28: also of rivers, etc.: in the very m. of the harbour, in ipsu aditu atque ore portus, Cic. Verr. 5, 12, 30: at the m. of the Tiber (a city was built), in ore Tiberis, Liv. 1, 33, extr.: Tac. 2. ostium (of rivers, etc.): the m. of the Rhone, o. Rhodani, Caes. B. C. 2, 1: the m. of a harbour, o. [aditusque] portus, Cic. Verr. 4, 53, 118. 3. căput, ĭtis, n. (more strictly, the source of a river, but also found to denote the other extremity): it flows into the sea by many m.s, multis c. in oceanum influit, Caes. B. C. 4, 10, extr. 4. ădĭtus, ūs (access, entrance): Virg. G. 4, 35 (of the m.s of hives): cf. supr. (II., 1). Phr.: the m. of a hive, foramen quo exitus et introitus datur (apibus), Col. 9, 7, ad fin. (R. and A.): but a little above, ora cavearum, in same sense. See also, aperture, orifice.
mouth (v.) Copy link • mouth (v.): perh. ampullor, 1: cf. Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 14, an tragica desaevit et ampullatur in arte, does he fume and mouth in tragic style? Phr.: words should neither be m.'d out nor pronounced with affected nicety, *verba neque tumido ore (inflatis buccis) quasi in scenis pronuntianda neque putidius sunt exprimenda (cf. Hor. A. P. 94: Cic. de Or. 3, 11, 41).
MOUTH Copy link • MOUTHOf men or animals, os (PROP.): rostrum (an instrument for gnawing; hence snout, beak; also, in contempt or facete for the human mouth): rictus oris, or simply rictus (an opening of the mouth, an open mouth): hiatus oris, or simply hiatus (a wide opening of the mouth, as in yawning): With open mouth, hians: to open the mouth (in order to speak), os aperire (poetical): to open the mouth wide, rictum diducere (in astonishment, laughter, or speaking; poetical): hiare (general term): oscitare (in yawning): to open anyone’s mouth (in order to put anything into it), alicui os diducere: do not open your mouth too wide (in laughing, speaking), sint modici rictus (Ov., A.A., 3, 283); observandum est ne immodicus hiatus rictum distendat (Quint., 1, 11, 9): to distort the mouth, labra distorquere (ib.): to make a mouth at anything (contemptuously), rictu oris ductuque labrorum contemni a se aliquid ostendere (Gell., 18, 4): to look at a horse’s mouth, equi dentes inspicere. Proverbially, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, equi donati dentes non inspiciuntur (Hier.): to stop a person’s mouth, linguam alicui occludere; os alicui obturare (comic): to snatch a thing out of one’s mouth, aliquid alicui ab ore rapere; praeripere alicui aliquid; ex ore or ex faucibus eripere alicui aliquid (e.g., bolum, orationem; comic); eripere alicui aliquid (e.g., responsionem, comic): you take the word out of my mouth, istuc ibam (comic): to put anything into one’s mouth (figuratively; i. e., to introduce him as saying), aliquem aliquid loquentem facere: anything makes one’s mouth water, aliquid salivam mihi movet (also, figuratively in epistolary style, as Sen., Ep., 79, 6, aetna tibi salivam movet): to have anything in one’s mouth, aliquid in ore habere (PROP., of food; and figuratively, of speech): aliquid loqui (figuratively, of speech, ἐρεῖν τι; e.g., omnia magna loqui; nihil nisi classes loqui et exercitus): to be in ererybody’s mouth, in omnium ore or in omnium ore et sermone esse, omni populo in ore esse, per omnium ora ferri (of persons or things, in good or bad sense): omnium sermone vapulare (of persons, in a bad sense): tota urbe or tota regione percelebrari (of things, to be spread abroad): to have a thing from a person’s own mouth, coram ex ipso audivisse aliquid; aliquo auctore cognovisse aliquid: to speak through the mouth of anyone, alicujus ore loqui: not to shut one’s mouth (i. e., to speak boldly), libere loqui: to speak whatever comes into one’s mouth, garrire or loqui quidquid in buccam venerit (Vid: Cic., Att., 1, 12, extr.): out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat (Hor., A.P., 337): to keep the mouth shut (figuratively), tacere; linguam compescere: to proceed out of the mouth (of words, speech), ex ore alicujus exire, excidere, or mitti. An opening, place of egress, etc., os, ostium (e.g., of a river, etc.); caput (one of several mouths of a river): the mouth of a gutter, drain, nares canalis: the mouth of a cannon, *os tormenti bellici: mouth of a hive, foramen quo exitus et introitus datur apibus (Col., 9, 7, 5).