squamosus

squāmōsus (-mossus), a, um, adj. [squama], full of or covered with scales, scaly, squamous (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).

• I Lit.: pecus (i. e. pisces), Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 5 (942): soleamne esse avis squamossas? id. Men. 5, 5, 19 (917): draco, Verg. G. 4, 408; cf.: venter cerastae, Prop. 3 (4), 22, 27: orbes (anguis), Ov. M. 3, 41: greges (piscium), Col. 8, 17, 2: agmina, Prud. στεφ. 5, 144: belua, Sen. Hippol. 1048: pellis, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 263.—
• II Transf.: thorax, Prud. Ham. 423: smaragdi, Plin. 37, 5, 18, § 72.— Poet.: lingua, stiff, rough, Luc. 4, 325.

squāmōsus (squamossus), a, um (squama), voll Schuppen, schuppig, I) eig.: draco, Verg.: pecus, Fische, Plaut.: pisces, Cael. Antip. fr.: squamoso corpore pisces, Cic. poët. – II) übtr.: thorax, Prud.: smaragdi, Plin.: lingua, rauhe, Lucan.

squamosus [CL], covered in scales, scaly; b (w. ref. to morbid growth or sim. on surface of body); c (fig. or transf.). si prius occumbat squamoso corpore natrix Aldh. Aen. 24 (Dracontia) 4; horrendum ~o [gl.: informi, squama est serpentium vel piscium cutis] corpore draconem ‥ quem boam vocant Id. VirgP 29; [Sirenae] ~as ‥ piscium caudas habent Lib. Monstr. I 6; animantia, quae ungulam non findunt, nec ruminant, nec ~a in piscibus sunt Bede Mark 200C; pisces scamosi Gilb. II 95. 2 (v. deaurare 3); utatur piscibus ~is Gad. 18. 2.  b noster in orbe decus squamoso corpore lepram / de tumulo purgat Mir. Nin. p. 962; pendet ab humero tanti principis plenus sordibus pauper, squalidis manibus brachiisque ~is regium illud pectus collumque complectitur Ailr. Ed. Conf. 754D; a quibusdam vocantur scamosi eo quod assimilantur scamis piscium Gilb. I 66v. 2.  c tantae diversarum generum hispidae ~aeque sequuntur fabulae Lib. Monstr. prol..

squāmōsus (14) (-ossus), a, um, (squama), c. squameus : Pl. Rud. 942 ; Men. 919 ; Virg. G. 4, 408 || [poét.] âpre, rude, raboteux : Luc. 4, 325.

squamosus , a, um. adj.
起魚鱗。粗糲者。

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squāmōsus adj.

• squama, covered with scales, scaly: draco, V.: orbes (anguis), O.