adipatus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ădĭpātus, a, um, adj. [adeps], filled or supplied with fat, fatty, greasy.

I Lit.: puls, Lucil. ap. Charis. 73 and 74 P.; hence, absol. : ădĭpātum (sc. edulium), i, pastry prepared with fat (cf. Charis. l. c.): livida materno fervent adipata veneno, Juv. 6, 630.—

II Trop. of discourse, coarse , gross : opimum quoddam et tamquam adipatae orationis genus, Cic. Or. 8, 25; also ap. Non. 69, 6 (al. adipale).

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