wedge
wedge
subs.
Ar. and V. σφήν, ὁ.
Military formation: P. ἔμβολον, τό (Xen.).
subs.
Ar. and V. σφήν, ὁ.
Military formation: P. ἔμβολον, τό (Xen.).
wedge
v. trans.
Fix: P. and V. πηγνύναι.
v. trans.
Fix: P. and V. πηγνύναι.
WEDGE
cuneus; diminutive cuneolus. To fasten by wedges cuneare: to drive a wedge cuneum adigere or injicere: to cleave with a wedge cuneo findere; discuneare: like a wedge cuneatus; cuneatim (adverb): to form like a wedge cuneare (cuneatur Hispania Plin.); in cuneum tenuare (Britannia in cuneum tenuatur Tac.).
cuneus; diminutive cuneolus. To fasten by wedges cuneare: to drive a wedge cuneum adigere or injicere: to cleave with a wedge cuneo findere; discuneare: like a wedge cuneatus; cuneatim (adverb): to form like a wedge cuneare (cuneatur Hispania Plin.); in cuneum tenuare (Britannia in cuneum tenuatur Tac.).
wedge (subs.): cŭneus: they used to split the cleavable wood with w.s, cuneis scindebant fissile lignum, Virg. G. 1, 144: their lines are arranged in w.s, acies per cuneos componitur, Tac. Germ. 6. Phr.: the land narrows as it were to a w., terra velut in cuneum tenuatur, Tac. Agr. 10.
wedge (v.): cŭneo, 1: if anything needs w.ing in wood, si quid cuneandum sit in ligno, Plin. 16, 40, 76: the mountain pass w.d in so as to leave but a narrow ridge, jugum montis in angustum dorsum cuneatum, Liv. 44, 4.
wedge
Wedge, place so called in hippodrome at Olympia
- Paus. 5.15.6, cf.Paus. 6.20.10
Wedge
See cuneus.