flexuosus
flexuosus, full of turns, winding, tortuous, crooked
flexŭōsus, a, um, adj. [2. flexus], full of turns or windings, tortuous, flexuous, crooked, winding.
- I Lit.: flexuosum iter habet auditus, ne quid intrare possit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: Taurus mons, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98: volatus hirundini, id. 10, 24, 35, § 73.—Sup.: intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 200.—*
- II Trop.: fraudes, Prud. Cath. 6, 143.—* Adv.: flexu-ōse, tortuously: si flexuose volitet flamma, Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.
flexuōsus, a, um (flexus, us), krümmungsreich, voll Krümmungen, iter, des Ohres, Cic.: u. so tramites (aurium), Arnob.: excessus, Solin. u. Amm.: fossarum ambitus (Plur.), Val. Max.: Taurus mons, Plin.: cervorum cursus directior, vulpeculae flexuosus, Ambros. in psalm. 118. serm. 2. § 2: Superl., intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 200. – übtr., fraudes, Prud. cath. 6, 143.
crebris insularum nemorumque intervenientibus ~is rivigarum anfractibus
flexosis geminum contractibus in caput errans / curro
~us, i. labilis, lubricus, curvus
per fila nervorum tortuosa ab ipsa cute corporis per vias ~as usque ad instrumentum tactus
nervi ‥ ~i sunt ut deserviant membris ad gerendum se faciliter versus qua[m ]libet partem
Minos ‥ ad dedecus suum celandum Dedali arte sibi facta ~a domo, in ea Minotaurum inclusit
in ~o solis circa lineam eclypticam discursu
‘cingit campus et vallis erecta clivo levi’, id est ascensu ~o parvo
non quidem in directum sed per flectuosos calles ad mare festinabat
nullus collegii prefectus ‥ in camisiis suis altioribus plicaturis illis serratis et ~is, quae vulgariter ruffae nuncupantur ‥ utetur
~us, flexibilis
sicut ‥ ~um ~o, sic malum malo convenire non potest
flexŭōsus, (15) a, um (flexus 2), tortueux, sinueux : Cato Agr. 33, 1 ; Cic. Nat. 2, 144 || -issimus Plin. 11, 200.
flexuōsus
adj.
- 2 flexus, full of turns, winding, tortuous, crooked: iter habere.