globosus

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

glŏbōsus, a, um, adj. [globus],

round as a ball , spherical , globose (class.): (mundum) globosum est fabricatus, quod σφαιροειδὲς Graeci vocant, Cic. Univ. 6; cf.: stellae globosae et rotundae, id. Rep. 6, 15: mundus, id. N. D. 2, 45, 116; cf.: forma (mundi), id. ib. 2, 19, 49: terra, id. ib. 2, 39, 98: saxum, Pac. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 23, 36; Liv. 38, 29, 4.

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