spruce
spruce
adj.
P. and V. εὐπρεπής, κᾰλός, Ar. and P. χᾰρίεις.
Make oneself look spruce: Ar. and P. καλλωπίζεσθαι.
Orderly: P. and V. κόσμιος, εὔκοσμος.
adj.
P. and V. εὐπρεπής, κᾰλός, Ar. and P. χᾰρίεις.
Make oneself look spruce: Ar. and P. καλλωπίζεσθαι.
Orderly: P. and V. κόσμιος, εὔκοσμος.
SPRUCE
bellus (pretty; mostly but not always with praise): nitidus (carefully and strikingly neat etc.: e.g. quos vides pexo capillo nitidos Cic. Cat. 2 10 [Orelli puts a comma after capillo]): lepidus (used in a bad sense in Cic. Cat. 2 10: ni pueri tam lepidi tam delicati alluding to their fine and effeminate dress appearance etc.): lepide ornatus (Plaut. Poen. 1 2 84): ☞ comtus almost always refers to neatness etc. of style composition as lepidus often does. From a spruce man he becomes a rustic ex nitido fit rusticus (Hor.). A spruce gentleman bellus homunculus (Varr. ap. Gell. 13 10): homo totus de capsula (as if come out of a bandbox Sen. Ep. 115 2).
bellus (pretty; mostly but not always with praise): nitidus (carefully and strikingly neat etc.: e.g. quos vides pexo capillo nitidos Cic. Cat. 2 10 [Orelli puts a comma after capillo]): lepidus (used in a bad sense in Cic. Cat. 2 10: ni pueri tam lepidi tam delicati alluding to their fine and effeminate dress appearance etc.): lepide ornatus (Plaut. Poen. 1 2 84): ☞ comtus almost always refers to neatness etc. of style composition as lepidus often does. From a spruce man he becomes a rustic ex nitido fit rusticus (Hor.). A spruce gentleman bellus homunculus (Varr. ap. Gell. 13 10): homo totus de capsula (as if come out of a bandbox Sen. Ep. 115 2).
spruce (adj.): nĭtĭdus: Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 22 (quos pexo capillo, nitidos ... videtis): from a s. cit he becomes the farmer, ex n. fit rusticus, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 83: cf. FOP . (Elegans, comptus, bellus, are words without any idea of disparagement: which, however, may be thus conveyed: circa vestitus curam morosior quam virum decet: nimis exquisitae munditiae, etc.)
spruce (subs.): pīnus abies (Norway s.): Bot.