subverbustus

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

subverbustus, a, um, adj. [perhaps contr. from sub verubus ustus],

branded under the spear , an epithet of a male or female slave (ante- and post-class.): subverbustam veribus ustam significat Plautus cum ait: ulcerosam, compeditam, subverbustam, sordidam, Fest. p. 309 Müll.; Tert. Pall. 4 med.