Meaning of foedans | Babel Free
Definitions
making hideous, befouling, disfiguring, lacerating, spoiling, defiling
declension-3, form-of, one-termination, participle, present
Examples
“unguibus ōra soror foedāns et pectora pugnīs the [grieving] sister disfiguring her face with her fingernails, and [beating] her breast with her fists (Aeneid line 4.673 repeats at 12.871; cf. 11.86. Note the poetic plurals: ora…pectora. See Arthur Stanley Pease, (1935), Publi Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus, pp. 517-519, for extensive classical references to similar behaviors.)”
“infelix crinis scindit Iuturna solutos unguibus ora soror foedans”
The unhappy sister Juturna tore the loosened hair, defiling her face with her fingernails.
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free