spot (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A mark1. măcŭla2. nŏta (mark by which anything may be known)3. lābes, is, f. (blot, stain)II. Exact place • spot (subs.): I. A mark: 1. măcŭla: (a horse) with white s.s. albis m., Virg. Aen. 9, 49: to take s.s (soils) out of clothes, m. auferre de vestibus, Ov. F. 3, 821: to remove freckles and s.s from the face, lentigines ac m. de facie t., Plin. 20, 2, 4. Freq. in fig. sense = stain, disgrace, blot: Cic.: Ter. 2. nŏta (mark by which anything may be known): v. mark. 3. lābes, is, f. (blot, stain): v. stain. Marked with s.s, maculosus: v. spotted. II. Exact place: lŏcus: also in poet. sdes: v. place. Phr.: on the s.: (1.) stătim (cf. Germ. stehendes Fusses): v. immediately. (2.) ĭbīdem (in the very same place): some birds of prey tore it to pieces on the s., volucres (avem) ibidem discerpserunt, Suet. Caes. 81: Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154. Join: ibidem statim, Suet. Aug. 87.
spot (v.) Copy link • spot (v.): nŏto, nŏtis distinguo: v. to mark. (In prose, maculare = to stain, blot, disgrace: in poet., to soil, discolour.)
SPOT Copy link • SPOT 1. s. A stain, mark, macula (which marks a thing otherwise of a single color; also for labes): labes (which renders unclean; in prose mostly figuratively = stain, blot, blemish): nota (a mark used for distinction): naevus (natural spot on the skin): aerugo (a spot of rust): atramenti litura (a blot [so Georges; but Freund gives no instance of litura in this sense, its meaning being that of smearing over; e.g., in erasure from a waxen tablet: thus linere atramento is to cover with a wash of black paint: better, nota or labes atramenti, after tractata notam labemque remittunt Atramenta, Hor.]): rubor (a red spot): livor, sugillatio (a blue spot on the body; the former natural, the latter in consequence of a blow): glaucoma, -atis, neuter (a blue or grey spot on the eye): sarcion (a vein in a precious stone): vitium (figuratively, a fault, stain). To make a spot in anything, maculam facere in aliqua re: to take away or remove a spot, maculam tollere, delere, auferre; from anything, e or de re (general term); maculam (atramenti labem) abluere; from anything, e re; with anything, aliqua re (to wash out); maculam extrahere (to draw out): to remove a spot from the body, maculae corporis mederi: from the face, maculam e facie tollere: to be without a spot, omni vitio carere. [Vid: also, BLEMISH, STAIN] Place, locus. In the right spot, suo loco: not to move or stir from the spot, nusquam se vestigio movere: not to remain in one spot, nusquam insistere: to be always looking to one spot, eadem contueri: not to stir or advance from the spot, nihil promovere. 2. v. maculare: commaculare: maculis aspergere (especially to make spots on anything white): inquinare (to disfigure by spots): contaminare (to pollute, figuratively): oblinere (to besmear): labem or labeculam aspergere alicui rei (to affix a stain of infamy to). Vid: To STAIN, POLLUTE.