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caelumnormalized · caelum4 analyses · 2 lemmas
Lemma 1cāelŭm,cōelum
nounneuter
- chisel; engraving tool; burin; - heaven, sky, heavens; space; air, climate, weather; universe, world; Jehovah
Morphology3 analyses
nominative singularcael + um · regular
vocative singularcael + um · regular
accusative singularcael + um · regular
Lewis & Short
caelum, i, [caedo]
the chisel or burin of the sculptor or engraver, a graver —
caelum, i, , ,
, Caes. ap, and P., who consider the as not in use, Rudd. I. p. 109. From: unum caelum esset an innumerabilia, nothing can be positively inferred. — Form: divum domus altisonum cael, Enn. , or Ann. 561 Vahl. [for cavilum, root in cavus; çva-, to swell, be hollow; ], the sky, heaven, the heavens, the vault of heaven (in Lucr alone more than 150 times): hoc inde circum supraque, quod complexu continet terram, id quod nostri caelum memorant, Pac. Müll. — Hence the phrase de caelo tangi, to be struck with lightning; Drak.
: Caelus (Caelum, Hyg. Fab. praef.), son of Aether and Dies; father of Saturn, Enn. ; of Vulcan; of Mercury and the first Venus, Serv ad.
In the lang. of augury.
Varr : delabi caelo, to drop down from the sky, of sudden or unexpected good fortune; caelo missus, Tib 1, 3, 90: caelum ac terras miscere, to confound every thing, overturn all, raise chaos, Liv 4, 3, 6; findere caelum aratro, of an impossibility, Ov Tr 1, 8, 3: toto caelo errare, to err very much, be much or entirely mistaken.
caeli in a pun with Caeli, of Caelius, Serv. et Philarg. ad.
In the plur caeli, ōrum, , is very , the heavens, Tert. de Fuga, 12.
Heaven, in a more restricted sense; the region of heaven, a climate, zone, region.
The air, sky, atmosphere, temperature, climate, weather (very ): commoda, quae percipiuntur caeli temperatione — With
Daytime, day (very rare): albente caelo, at break of day, Sisenn.
Height — of the earth or upper world in opposition to the lower world.
Heaven, the abode of the happy dead, ( )
Trop, the summit of prosperity, happiness, honor, — Of things; and: exaequare aliquem caelo, Lucr 1, 79; in caelo sum, I am in heaven, am very happy.
, a vault, arch, covering; dub.
Lemma 2cāelus
nounmasculine
Morphology1 analysis
accusative singularcael + um · regular
Lewis & Short
caelus, i
See caelum and I. 2.
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