turf
turf
subs.
Grass: P. and V. πόα, ἡ, χλόη, ἡ, Ar. and V. ποία, ἡ (Eur. Cycl. 333).
Pasturage: P. βοτάνη, ἡ.
Meadow: P. and V. λειμών, ὁ ; see meadow.
Met., horse racing: Ar. and P. ἱπποδρομία, ἡ.
subs.
Grass: P. and V. πόα, ἡ, χλόη, ἡ, Ar. and V. ποία, ἡ (Eur. Cycl. 333).
Pasturage: P. βοτάνη, ἡ.
Meadow: P. and V. λειμών, ὁ ; see meadow.
Met., horse racing: Ar. and P. ἱπποδρομία, ἡ.
TURF
s. cespes (a spot covered with turf a grass-plot; also a tuft of grass with the earth in which it grows): herba (young tender grass on which one may lie). Fresh turf cespes vivus: to cut turf cespitem circumcidere (Caes. B.G. 5 42): to lie on the turf se abjicere in herba (not in herbam): a seat of turf sedile cespite obductum; sedne e or de cespite vivo factum; sedile gramineum.
s. cespes (a spot covered with turf a grass-plot; also a tuft of grass with the earth in which it grows): herba (young tender grass on which one may lie). Fresh turf cespes vivus: to cut turf cespitem circumcidere (Caes. B.G. 5 42): to lie on the turf se abjicere in herba (not in herbam): a seat of turf sedile cespite obductum; sedne e or de cespite vivo factum; sedile gramineum.
v. cespitem ponere rei: congerere rem cespite: *cespite obducere (to cover with turf).
turf (subs.):
1. caespes, ĭtis, m. (both a sod and green sward): tents spread with fresh t., recentibus c. tabernacula constrata, Caes. B. C. 3, 96: let there be made an altar green with t., ara gramineo viridis de caespite fiat, Ov. Trist. 5, 5, 9: he plucks his spear from the t., hastam de caespite vellit, Virg. Aen. 11, 566: Plin.: to cut t., caespitem circumcidere, Caes. B. G. 5, 42: fresh t., c. vivus, Ov. Met. 4, 300.
2. herba (tender grass): to lie on the t., se abjicere in h., Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28.
3. grāmen, ĭnis, n.: flowery t., floreum g., Mart. 9, 91, 1: v.GRASS . Covered with t., caespōsus: Col. 10, 130: grāmĭneus: Virg. 8, 176: v. GRASSY . Phr.: the t. (colloq. for horse-racing), perh. currĭcŭlum. cf. Hor. Od. 1, 1, 3: v. RACE .
1. caespes, ĭtis, m. (both a sod and green sward): tents spread with fresh t., recentibus c. tabernacula constrata, Caes. B. C. 3, 96: let there be made an altar green with t., ara gramineo viridis de caespite fiat, Ov. Trist. 5, 5, 9: he plucks his spear from the t., hastam de caespite vellit, Virg. Aen. 11, 566: Plin.: to cut t., caespitem circumcidere, Caes. B. G. 5, 42: fresh t., c. vivus, Ov. Met. 4, 300.
2. herba (tender grass): to lie on the t., se abjicere in h., Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28.
3. grāmen, ĭnis, n.: flowery t., floreum g., Mart. 9, 91, 1: v.
turf (v.): consternere caespitibus, cf. Caes. B. C. 3, 96: *caespite tegere, vestire, aliquid (Kr.).