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Latin
Etymology
From pulvis (“dust”) + -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
pulverulentus (feminine pulverulenta, neuter pulverulentum); first/second-declension adjective
- dusty, pulverulent, full of dust, dust-raising, resembling a cloud of dust
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.153–155:
- aliā dē parte patentīs
trānsmittunt cursū campōs atque agmina cervī
pulverulenta fugā glomerant montīsque relinquunt.- and from another place appear — crossing open ground in their course — stags, gathering dusty herds to flee as they leave the hills.
- toilsome
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “pulverulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pulverulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pulverulentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.