saw
saw
subs.
Ar. and V. πρί̄ων, ὁ.
Proverb: see maxim, saying.
subs.
Ar. and V. πρί̄ων, ὁ.
Proverb: see maxim, saying.
saw
v. trans.
P. and V. πρί̄ειν.
Saw in two: Ar. and P. διαπρί̄ειν.
Saw off: Ar. and P. ἐκπρί̄ειν.
v. trans.
P. and V. πρί̄ειν.
Saw in two: Ar. and P. διαπρί̄ειν.
Saw off: Ar. and P. ἐκπρί̄ειν.
SAW
s. serra (general term): serrula (a little saw): lupus (a hand-saw). The grating noise of a saw stridor: a grating saw serra stridens (Lucr.): toothed jagged like a saw serratus: the blade of a saw lamina serrae: the tooth of a saw dens serrae: to cut anything through with a saw serra dissecare aliquid.
s. serra (general term): serrula (a little saw): lupus (a hand-saw). The grating noise of a saw stridor: a grating saw serra stridens (Lucr.): toothed jagged like a saw serratus: the blade of a saw lamina serrae: the tooth of a saw dens serrae: to cut anything through with a saw serra dissecare aliquid.
v. Intransitively serram ducere.
Transitively serra secare or dissecare aliquid. To saw off serra praecidere (Col.) serrula desecare; lupo desecare; lupo resecare (with a hand-saw): to saw a tree into planks or boards arborem in laminas dissecare: to saw round serrula circumsecare: to saw marble marmor secare (Plin.). To saw asunder aliquem medium serra dissecare (as a mode of execution Suet. Cal. 27).
Transitively serra secare or dissecare aliquid. To saw off serra praecidere (Col.) serrula desecare; lupo desecare; lupo resecare (with a hand-saw): to saw a tree into planks or boards arborem in laminas dissecare: to saw round serrula circumsecare: to saw marble marmor secare (Plin.). To saw asunder aliquem medium serra dissecare (as a mode of execution Suet. Cal. 27).
saw:
I. The tool: serra; Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116 (stridor serrae): Ov. M. 8, 246. Dimin. serrŭla (a small saw): Cic. Clu. 64, 180. Varr. R. R. 1, 50: jagged like a s., serrātus, Plin. 11, 37, 61.
II. A wise saying: prōverbium: v.PROVERB .
I. The tool: serra; Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116 (stridor serrae): Ov. M. 8, 246. Dimin. serrŭla (a small saw): Cic. Clu. 64, 180. Varr. R. R. 1, 50: jagged like a s., serrātus, Plin. 11, 37, 61.
II. A wise saying: prōverbium: v.
saw (v.):
I. Trans.:
1. translate by serrâ with verbs seco, circumseco, exseco, disseco, according to variations of meaning: the wood is too hard to be sawn, *lignum durius est quam ut serra secari possit: to s. a person through the middle (as a mode of execution), aliquem medium serra dissecare, Suet. Cal. 27, med.: cf. Cic. Clu. 64, 180 (qua illud potuisse ita serra circumsecari [sawn all round] videretur).
2. serro, 1: Veg. Mil. 2, 25.
II. Intrans.: serram ducere: cf. the phr. serram ducere cum aliquo de aliqua re (to quarrel with anybody about anything), Varr. R. R. 3, 6.
I. Trans.:
1. translate by serrâ with verbs seco, circumseco, exseco, disseco, according to variations of meaning: the wood is too hard to be sawn, *lignum durius est quam ut serra secari possit: to s. a person through the middle (as a mode of execution), aliquem medium serra dissecare, Suet. Cal. 27, med.: cf. Cic. Clu. 64, 180 (qua illud potuisse ita serra circumsecari [sawn all round] videretur).
2. serro, 1: Veg. Mil. 2, 25.
II. Intrans.: serram ducere: cf. the phr. serram ducere cum aliquo de aliqua re (to quarrel with anybody about anything), Varr. R. R. 3, 6.