Meaning of imbrex | Babel Free

Definitions

1. imbrex, pantile: a curved roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the larger, heavier and flat tegula
   declension-3, feminine, in-plural, masculine
2. of things shaped like a pantile
   declension-3, feminine, masculine
3. of things shaped like a pantile:
   declension-3, feminine, masculine
4. a gutter, a trough for watering beasts
   declension-3, feminine, masculine

Examples

“Coordinate term: tēgula”

“At ita me di deaeque omnis ament, nisi mihi supplicium virgeum de te datur longum diutinumque, a mane ad vesperum, quod meas confregisti imbricis et tegulas, […]”

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“atque illud saepe fit: tempestas venit,”

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“Butadis inventum est rubricam addere aut ex rubra creta fingere, primusque personas tegularum extremis imbricibus inposuit, quae inter initia prostypa vocavit; […] .”

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“Exiguus primum atque ipsos contractus in usus eligitur locus; hunc angustique imbrice tecti parietibusque premunt artis et quattuor addunt,”

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“Cupa qua fini in modiolos erit, utrimque secus imbricibus ferreis quattuor de suo sibi utrimque secus facito qui figas. Imbrices medias clavulis figito. Supra imbrices extrinsecus cupam pertundito, qua clavus eat, qui orbem cludat.”

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“Nonnulli rorem marinum aqua mulsea decoctum, cum gelaverit, imbricibus infusum praebent libandum.”

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“Quod si longius adferantur pomorum calami, rapo infixos optime custodire sucum arbitrantur, servari inter duos imbrices iuxta rivos vel piscinas utrimque terra obstructos, vitium vero in scrobibus siccis stramento opertos ac deinde terra obrutos, ut cacumine exstent.”

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