stagnum

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

stāgnum ī, n

STA-, a standing water, lake, pool, pond, swamp, fen : stagna vendere: super ripas Tiberis effusus lenibus stagnis, L.: Cocyti stagna, V.: stagna inmensa lacusque, O.: stagni incola, i. e. a frog , Ph.— Waters : imis Stagna refusa vadis, V.: Phrixeae stagna sororis, i. e. the Hellespont , O.— An artificial lake, pool, basin : Extenta Lucrino Stagna lacu, H.: Euripi, O.

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