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Lituus
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Lit′u-us
,Noun.
pl.
Litui
(#)
. [L.]
1.
(Rom. Antig.)
(a)
A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
(b)
An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
2.
(Math.)
A spiral whose polar equation is
r
; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line. 2
θ = aDefinition 2024
lituus
lituus
English
Noun
lituus (plural litui)
- A military trumpet.
- (geometry) A curve with polar equation , where a is a constant.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.tu.us/, [ˈlɪ.tʊ.ʊs]
Noun
lituus m (genitive lituī); second declension
Declension
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lituus | lituī |
| genitive | lituī | lituōrum |
| dative | lituō | lituīs |
| accusative | lituum | lituōs |
| ablative | lituō | lituīs |
| vocative | litue | lituī |
Derived terms
References
- lituus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lituus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lituus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- lituus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lituus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin