Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word virum.
Examples
-
No less remarkably, the two devoted as much attention to modern Athens, with its Greek and Ottoman citizens, as they did to what Vergil called virum monumenta priorum, "monuments of earlier men."
A Silly, Very Cultured Club Rowland, Ingrid D. 2009
-
"Ad feminam" would only be necessary if the conventional phrase were "ad virum".
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
-
Ita in corpora nostra fortunasque decretis suis saeviit ut parum obfuerat nisi Deus Lutherum virum perpetua memoria dignissimum excitasset, quin nobis faeno mox communi cum jumentis cibo utendum fuisset.
-
Eurialum tota ferebatur, domum reversa, &c., she would not hold her eyes off him in his presence, — [6098] tantum egregio decus enitet ore, and in his absence could think of none but him, odit virum, she loathed her husband forthwith, might not abide him:
-
Homer's Iliads and Odysseys without book, ut in virum bonum evaderet, as well to make him a good and honest man, as to avoid idleness.
-
[6732] Assequitur Nemesique virum vestigia servat,
-
Magnum virum sequi est sapere, some think; others desipere.
-
[6235] Mulier ut alienum virum non admittat praeter suum: Accipe fel hirci, et adipem, et exsicca, calescat in oleo, &c., et non alium praeter et amabit.
-
For after al great feast, [6118] Vino saepe suum nescit amica virum.
-
Porta, &c., plura invenies, et multo his absurdiora, uti et in Rhasi, ne mulier virum admittat, et maritum solum diligat, &c. But these are most part
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.