innubus

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

innŭbus, a, um, adj. [2. in-nubo], unmarried.

I Lit., Ov. M. 10, 567; 14, 142: Pallas, Aus. Epigr. 106; Val. Fl. 1, 87: diva, id. 4, 605.—

II Transf., of the laurel (because Daphne, who was never married, was changed into it): innuba laurus, Ov. M. 10, 92.

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