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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 13 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• fiery:
    1. I. Of fire; having the nature of fire:
      1. 1. igneus: the f. sun, i. sol, Virg. G. 4, 426: f. summer, i. aestas, Hor. Od. 1, 17, 2: gems of a f. hue, gemmae i. colore, Plin. 8, 38, 57. Fig.: f. vigour (of the soul), i. vigor, Virg. Aen. 6, 730: Ov.
      2. 2. ignĭfer, ĕra, ĕrum (fire-bearing: poet.): the f. lightning, i. fulmen, Lucr.: Ov.
      3. 3. fervĭdus (charged with glowing heat): f. Etna, f. Aetna, Hor. Epod. 17, 32. Fig.: more f. wine, fervidius merum, Hor. Epod. 11, 15: v. glowing.
      4. 4. ardens, ntis (burning; on fire): f. South winds, a. Austri, Plin.: Hor. Fig.: f. eyes, a. oculi, Virg. G. 4, 451: cups of f. Falernian, a. Falerni pocula, Hor. Od. 2, 11, 19.
      5. 5. flammeus (strictly, consisting of flame or fire): the stars are of a f. nature, stellae sunt naturâ flammeae, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118. Fig.: f. eyes, lumina f., Ov.
    2. II. Fig.: impetuous, eager:
      1. 1. ardens, ntis: a f. speaker, a. orator, Cic. Or. 28, 99: v. ardent, eager.
      2. 2. vĕhĕmens, ntis (energetic and vehement): Galba, even in practising (rhetoric), f. and excited, Galba etiam in meditando v. atque incensus, Cic. Br. 22, 88: a f. kind of oratory, v. orationis genus, Cic. de Or. 2, 49, 200.
      3. 3. fervĭdus: a f. kind of speaking, f. genus dicendi, Cic. Br. 68, 241: a man of f. spirit, f. animi vir, Liv.: Cat.: v. fervid.
      4. 4. călĭdus (poet.): f. Gradivus, c. Gradivus, Sil.: a horse of f. spirit, equus calidus animis, Virg. G. 3, 119.
      5. 5. fĕrox, ōcis (high spirited and impetuous: usu. to excess): he was in temperament f. and impetuous, natura f., vehemens erat, Sall. Cat. 44, fin.: you are too violent and f. by nature, nimium es vehemens f.-que natura, Cic. Vat. 2, 4: Liv.
      6. 6. cĕrebrōsus: v. choleric. N.B.--Ferox is esp. applicable to the fiery, undisciplined courage of half-civilised people: cf. Tac. Agr. 11, ad fin.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• FIERY
  • PROPR., igneus: ardens (glowing, etc.).
  • IMPROPR., (a) Sparkling, ardens: fulgens. Fiery eyes, oculi ardentes, fulgentes: fiery color, coloris flamma. (b) Strong; e.g., wine, vinum validum (opposed to imbecillum, Plin., 14, 21, 27): vinum fervidum (hot, Hor., Sat., 2, 8, 38). (c) Full of spiritual or mental fire, etc., ardens (on fire, as it were; of the mind, a poet, etc.): fervidus (boiling up, as it were, with inward power or vivacity; e.g., youth, a speech): acer (energetic, strong, etc.; e.g., of an orator or his speech): calidus (full of warmth, etc., of the blood; also of a man himself). A fiery speech, oratio ardens, fervida; orationis incitatio: to be a fiery speaker, acrem esse in dicendo: fiery minds, ingenia fervida: a fiery horse, equus calidus or acer; equus ferocitate exsultans (while exhibiting his fiery temper): a fiery mind or temperament, ingenium ardens or fervidum a fiery youth, or a youth of fiery character, juvenis ferventis animi.