incurvus

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

in-curvus, a, um, adj.,

I bent , bowed , crooked , curved (opp. recurvus, pandus; class.).

A Of persons: incurvus, tremulus, Ter. Eun. 335: incurvi umeris, Plin. 11, 52, 114, § 274.—

B Of things: lituus, id est incurvum, et leviter a summo inflexum bacillum, Cic. Div. 1, 17, 30: statua Stesichori, id. Verr. 2, 2, 35, § 87: aratrum, Verg. G. 1, 494: folium, Plin. 21, 12, 41, § 41: carinae, Ov. M. 14, 534: litus, Lucr. 2, 376.

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