fetor

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

fētor (faet-, foet-), ōris, m. [feteo].

I Prop., an offensive smell , a stench : jacebat in suorum Graecorum fetore atque vino, Cic. Pis. 10, 22; Col. 12, 18, 3: fetores oris emendare, Plin. 28, 8, 27, § 100: nec fetet fetor amanti, Paul. Nol. Carm. 18, 348.—

II Fig., foulness , noisomeness : reconditorum verborum fetores, Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 86: fetorem haereticae pestis evomuit, Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 5, 47.

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