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

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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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• reed:
      1. 1. ărundo, ĭnis, f.: the Mincio fringes its banks with r.s, Mincius praetexit arundine ripas, Virg. E. 7, 12: Caes.: a r.-thicket, ărundĭnētum, Plin. 17, 20, 33: the Indian r. (bamboo), a. Indica, ib. 16, 36, 35 (q. v.): a slender r. (Pan-pipe), tenuis a., Virg. E. 6, 8.
      2. 2. călămus (κάλαμος; nearly always applied to objects made of r.): a r. fit for making arrows, c. sagittarius, Plin. 16, 36, 66, ad init.: a r. with very long joints, c. longissimis internodiis, id. ib.: of a r.-pipe: to run over the open r.s with curved lip, unco labro c. percurrere hiantes, Lucr. 4, 586.
      3. 3. canna (rare: acc. to Col. 7, 4, an inferior sort, thinner and shorter than arundo): the little r.s beneath the tall ones, longa parvae sub arundine c., Ov. M. 8, 337: the marsh r., c. palustris, id. ib. 4, 298: the quivering r., c. tremula, id. ib. 6, 326: of a r.-pipe, id. ib. 2, 682: a r.-thicket, cannētum, Pall. Febr. 23, init.
      4. 4. cannŭla (dimin. of preced.): App. M. 4, p. 145.
      5. 5. stĭpŭla (a stalk): like the joint of a r., stipulae internodio similis, Plin. 37, 10, 67: contemptuously, of a r.-pipe, Virg. E. 3, 27.
      6. 6. fistŭla (a pipe): a r., f., Plin. 12, 22, 48: a r.-pipe in which the row of r.s continually lessens, f., cui semper decrescit arundinis ordo, Tib. 2, 5, 31.
      7. 7. condy̆lus (κόνδυλος, fist; hence a joint in a r.): a flute made of a tiny r., parvi tibia condyli, Mart. 5, 78, 30.
      8. 8. pălus, ūdis, f. (a swamp; hence a r. growing in it): Mart. 14, 160.
      9. 9. expr. by various special words; as, phragmītes (a r. growing in hedges), Plin. 32, 10, 52; dŏnax (δόναξ), id. ib.; cf. id. 16, 36, 35. Phr.: a tall shaft of Indian r. (bamboo), hasta graminea, Cic. Verr. 4, 56, 125: similar to a r., arundinaceus, Plin. 18, 7, 10, extr.; arundineus, id. 24, 16, 93.
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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• REED
calamus (general term): arundo (long and strong): canna (small and thin; Vid: Col., 4, 33).