in unguem

Latin

Pronunciation

Adverb

in unguem (not comparable)

  1. synonym of ad unguem
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics II.274–278:
      Si pinguis agros metabere campi,
      densa sere (in denso non segnior ubere Bacchus);
      sin tumulis accliue solum collisque supinos,
      indulge ordinibus; nec setius omnis in unguem
      arboribus positis secto uia limite quadret: […]
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    • c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De medicina VIII.3:
      Ex his ceterae quidem suturae in unguem committuntur: eae vero, quae super aures traversae sunt, totis oris paulatim extenuantur atque ita inferiora ossa superioribus leniter insidunt..
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  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in,‎ unguis.
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