thread
thread
subs.
Ar. and V. κλωστήρ, ὁ, V. μί̆τος, ὁ, P. νῆμα, τό (Plat.).
Made of thread, adj.: V. εὔμῐτος, μῐτώδης.
The long threads of raw flax: V. ὠμολίνου μακροὶ τόνοι (Aesch. Frag.).
Hang by a thread, Met.: P. ἐπὶ ῥοπῆς εἶναι, V. ἐν ῥοπῇ κεῖσθαι, ἐπὶ ξῠροῦ βεβηκέναι (perf. of βαίνειν) or βῆναι (aor. of βαίνειν).
Yet his life hangs by a thread: V. δέδορκε μέντοι φῶς ἐπὶ σμικρᾶς ῥοπῆς (Eur. Hipp. 1163).
Lose the thread: see digress.
I lose the thread: V. ἐκδρόμου πεσὼν τρέχω (Aesch. Ag. 1245).
subs.
Ar. and V. κλωστήρ, ὁ, V. μί̆τος, ὁ, P. νῆμα, τό (Plat.).
Made of thread, adj.: V. εὔμῐτος, μῐτώδης.
The long threads of raw flax: V. ὠμολίνου μακροὶ τόνοι (Aesch. Frag.).
Hang by a thread, Met.: P. ἐπὶ ῥοπῆς εἶναι, V. ἐν ῥοπῇ κεῖσθαι, ἐπὶ ξῠροῦ βεβηκέναι (perf. of βαίνειν) or βῆναι (aor. of βαίνειν).
Yet his life hangs by a thread: V. δέδορκε μέντοι φῶς ἐπὶ σμικρᾶς ῥοπῆς (Eur. Hipp. 1163).
Lose the thread: see digress.
I lose the thread: V. ἐκδρόμου πεσὼν τρέχω (Aesch. Ag. 1245).
thread
v. trans.
String together: Ar. and P. σῠνείρειν.
Pass, make one’s way through: P. and V. διέρχεσθαι, διᾰπερᾶν.
Thread the dance: V. ἑλίσσειν (absol.).
Where bands of sea-maidens thread the dance with fair steps: V. ἔνθα Νηρῄδων χόροι κάλλιστον ἴχνος ἐξελίσσουσιν ποδός (Eur. Tro. 2).
v. trans.
String together: Ar. and P. σῠνείρειν.
Pass, make one’s way through: P. and V. διέρχεσθαι, διᾰπερᾶν.
Thread the dance: V. ἑλίσσειν (absol.).
Where bands of sea-maidens thread the dance with fair steps: V. ἔνθα Νηρῄδων χόροι κάλλιστον ἴχνος ἐξελίσσουσιν ποδός (Eur. Tro. 2).
THREAD
s. PROP. filum (general term): linum: linea (thicker; composed of several threads twisted together). To draw a thread filum ducere trahere. gold threads aurea fila; aurum netum (spun gold; Alcim. Avit. 6 36): silver threads argentea fila: *argentum in filum ductum. Proverbially. To hang by a thread admodum tenui filo suspensum esse (Val.Max.); in summum discrimen deductum esse: in summo discrimine versari: tenui filo pendere (Ov.): not to have a dry thread about one imbre pluvia sudore (as the case may be) madidum or madefactum esse. Figuratively. The thread of a discourse cursus or series narrationis: to cut off the thread of a discourse incidere or praecidere orationem (not filum orationis abrumpere: filum is the texture of a discourse; the nature etc. of an argument): to resume the thread of a discourse redire ad id unde devertimus; unde exorsa est oratio eo reverti: but to resume the thread of our discourse sed jam unde huc degressa est eo redeat oratio; sed jam unde exorsa est oratio eo revertatur: the thread of a screw; by the Greek περικόλιον (we find plur. rugae per cochleam bullantes Plin. 18 31 74).
s. PROP. filum (general term): linum: linea (thicker; composed of several threads twisted together). To draw a thread filum ducere trahere. gold threads aurea fila; aurum netum (spun gold; Alcim. Avit. 6 36): silver threads argentea fila: *argentum in filum ductum. Proverbially. To hang by a thread admodum tenui filo suspensum esse (Val.Max.); in summum discrimen deductum esse: in summo discrimine versari: tenui filo pendere (Ov.): not to have a dry thread about one imbre pluvia sudore (as the case may be) madidum or madefactum esse. Figuratively. The thread of a discourse cursus or series narrationis: to cut off the thread of a discourse incidere or praecidere orationem (not filum orationis abrumpere: filum is the texture of a discourse; the nature etc. of an argument): to resume the thread of a discourse redire ad id unde devertimus; unde exorsa est oratio eo reverti: but to resume the thread of our discourse sed jam unde huc degressa est eo redeat oratio; sed jam unde exorsa est oratio eo revertatur: the thread of a screw; by the Greek περικόλιον (we find plur. rugae per cochleam bullantes Plin. 18 31 74).
v. To put a thread through (a needle) conjicere filum in acum (Celsus): filum per acum trajicere: filum in acum inserere (of thread Quint. 2 20 3).
To put on a thread lineam per rem perserere (after Varr.); lino inserere (Tert.).
To wind one’s self through a place penetrare per locum: pervadere locum or per locum.
To put on a thread lineam per rem perserere (after Varr.); lino inserere (Tert.).
To wind one’s self through a place penetrare per locum: pervadere locum or per locum.
thread (subs.):
I. T. for sewing, etc.:
1. fīlum: to guide one's steps by a t., regere filo vestigia, Virg. Aen. 6, 30: Hor.: hence prov.: the safety of the republic hung on a slender t., tenui filo suspensa reipublicae salus, Val. Max. 6, 4, 1: Ov. Pont. 4, 3, 35: t. by t., fīlātim, Lucr. 2, 831. [N.B.--In the fig. sense f. denotes the style or texture of a discourse: hence such modernisms as *f. abrumpere (Wolf in Kr.) should be avoided: v. Phr.]
2. līnum (a t. of flax: esp. of the t. that secured letters): a needle with two t.s, acus duo l. ducens, Cels. 7, 14: to cut the t., incidere linum, Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10 (of a letter).
3. līcium (t. of anything woven): to tie anything on a t. and hang it around the neck, aliquid illigatum licio e collo suspendere, Plin. 23, 7, 63, ad fin.: Ov.: of the t. of the web, Auson.
4. stāmen, ĭnis, n. (prop. the t. of the distaff, Ov. M. 4, 34): to follow the clue afforded by a t., legere s., Prop. 4, 4, 42.
5. subtēmen, ĭnis, n.: to spin t., s. nere, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 52: of the t.s of Fate, Catul. 64, 328: Hor.
6. ăcia (t. for a needle): soft t., a. mollis, Cels. 5, 26, 23.
7. līnea (a thin line of string or t.): a row of pearls on a t., l. dives, Mart. 8, 78, 7: of the t.s of a spider's web, in Plin. 11, 24, 28.
8. nēma, ătis, n.: Dig.: or nĕmen, ĭnis, n., Inscr.: v.YARN .
9. ărānea (a cobwebby t.): Plin. 24, 9, 37.
10. pānus (t. wound on a bobbin, πῆνος): Lucil.: so panuncula, Not. Tir.
11. thōmix, īcis, f.: Plin.: v.CORD , LINE .
12. căpillus, căpillamentum (the t.-like fibres of plants): Plin.: v.FIBRE . Phr.: the t. of a discourse, complexus loquendi seriesque, Quint. 1, 5, 3: to keep to the t. of the narrative, tenorem in narrationibus servare, id. 10, 7, 6: v. CONNECTION , TENOR : to break off the t. of one's speech, contextum dicendi intermittere, id. 10, 7, 26.
II. The t. of a screw, rūga (wrinkle): the t.s of a screw, rugae per cochleam bullantes, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317: the grooves between the t.s are called involuti canales, Vitr. 10, 6 (11), 2.
I. T. for sewing, etc.:
1. fīlum: to guide one's steps by a t., regere filo vestigia, Virg. Aen. 6, 30: Hor.: hence prov.: the safety of the republic hung on a slender t., tenui filo suspensa reipublicae salus, Val. Max. 6, 4, 1: Ov. Pont. 4, 3, 35: t. by t., fīlātim, Lucr. 2, 831. [N.B.--In the fig. sense f. denotes the style or texture of a discourse: hence such modernisms as *f. abrumpere (Wolf in Kr.) should be avoided: v. Phr.]
2. līnum (a t. of flax: esp. of the t. that secured letters): a needle with two t.s, acus duo l. ducens, Cels. 7, 14: to cut the t., incidere linum, Cic. Cat. 3, 5, 10 (of a letter).
3. līcium (t. of anything woven): to tie anything on a t. and hang it around the neck, aliquid illigatum licio e collo suspendere, Plin. 23, 7, 63, ad fin.: Ov.: of the t. of the web, Auson.
4. stāmen, ĭnis, n. (prop. the t. of the distaff, Ov. M. 4, 34): to follow the clue afforded by a t., legere s., Prop. 4, 4, 42.
5. subtēmen, ĭnis, n.: to spin t., s. nere, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 52: of the t.s of Fate, Catul. 64, 328: Hor.
6. ăcia (t. for a needle): soft t., a. mollis, Cels. 5, 26, 23.
7. līnea (a thin line of string or t.): a row of pearls on a t., l. dives, Mart. 8, 78, 7: of the t.s of a spider's web, in Plin. 11, 24, 28.
8. nēma, ătis, n.: Dig.: or nĕmen, ĭnis, n., Inscr.: v.
9. ărānea (a cobwebby t.): Plin. 24, 9, 37.
10. pānus (t. wound on a bobbin, πῆνος): Lucil.: so panuncula, Not. Tir.
11. thōmix, īcis, f.: Plin.: v.
12. căpillus, căpillamentum (the t.-like fibres of plants): Plin.: v.
II. The t. of a screw, rūga (wrinkle): the t.s of a screw, rugae per cochleam bullantes, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317: the grooves between the t.s are called involuti canales, Vitr. 10, 6 (11), 2.
thread (v.):
I. To t. a needle: expr. by filum in acum conjicere, Cels. 7, 16 (Kr. gives also per acum immittere, trajicere).
II. To put a t. or string through: expr. by *perserere filum per aliquid: cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 5: lino inserere aliquid, Tert. (R. and A.).
III. To t. one's way: insĭnuo, 1 (constr. with se or abs.): the river t.s its way among the vales, inter valles se flumen insinuat, Liv. 32, 13: Cic.: Caes.: v.WIND .
I. To t. a needle: expr. by filum in acum conjicere, Cels. 7, 16 (Kr. gives also per acum immittere, trajicere).
II. To put a t. or string through: expr. by *perserere filum per aliquid: cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 5: lino inserere aliquid, Tert. (R. and A.).
III. To t. one's way: insĭnuo, 1 (constr. with se or abs.): the river t.s its way among the vales, inter valles se flumen insinuat, Liv. 32, 13: Cic.: Caes.: v.
Thread
See tela.