pestilential
pestilential
adj.
P. and V. νοσώδης, P. λοιμώδης.
adj.
P. and V. νοσώδης, P. λοιμώδης.
PESTILENT PESTILENTIAL
pestilens (PROP.); foedus (figuratively); ☞ pestilentiosus only in late writers: a disease is pestilential pestilentia in morbos perniciales evadit (Liv. 27 23): a pestilential atmosphere aer pestilens (opposed to aer salubris): ☞ aer pestifer is unclassical.
pestilens (PROP.); foedus (figuratively); ☞ pestilentiosus only in late writers: a disease is pestilential pestilentia in morbos perniciales evadit (Liv. 27 23): a pestilential atmosphere aer pestilens (opposed to aer salubris): ☞ aer pestifer is unclassical.
pestilential: pestĭlens, ntis: p. regions, loci p. (opp. salubres), Cic. Fat. 4, 7: a most p. year, [gravissimus et] pestilentissimus annus, id. Fam. 5, 16: Liv. Also in fig.: Cic. Fam. 7, 24: Liv. (Pestĭfer = causing destruction or disease: e. g. pestifer odos, a pestilential stench, Liv. 25, 26: in Cic. = destructive, noxious: N. D. 2, 47, 122.) See also UNHEALTHY . (N.B.--Pestilentiosus very late.)
appearing fewer than 50 times
λοιμικόςpestilential
λοιμοφόρος
bringing plague, pestilential
λοιμώδης
like plague, pestilential