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rimosus

rimosus, full of cracks, abounding in chinks

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

rīmōsus, a, um: adj. (rīma), full of cracks or crevices; leaky, 6.414.

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rimosusque Adjective: masculine nominative singular of rimosus

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rīmōsus, a, um, adj. [rima], full of cracks, chinks, or fissures (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
  • I Lit.: fores, Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 16: cymba, Verg. A. 6, 414: aedificium (with fissum), Col. 1, 5, 10: vasa, Juv. 3, 270.— Comp.: pulmo, Gell. 17, 11, 1.—
  • II Trop.: quae rimosā bene deponuntur in aure, i.e. that keeps nothing secret, Hor. S. 2, 6, 46: nihil in eā (animā) rimosum est ac remissum, Ambros. Cant. Cantic. 1, § 52.

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