conserva

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

conserva, ae, f. [conservus], a (female) fellow-slave.

I Prop., Plaut. Cas. 1, 20; id. Mil. 4, 8, 30; Ter. Eun. 366; Varr. R. R. 1, 17, 5 al.; dat. plur. conservabus, Dig. 33, 7, 27.—

II Transf. to inanimate things: nolo ego foris conservas Meas a te verberarier, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 6: duraque conservae ligna, valete, fores, Ov. Am. 1, 6, 74.

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