ungula
Americannoun
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ungulae
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noun
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maths a truncated cone, cylinder, etc
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a rare word for hoof
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Origin of ungula
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin ungula a claw, hoof, talon, diminutive of unguis unguis
Example Sentences
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Professor J. N. Grant points out to me the possible borrowing from Ennius Ann 439 Vahlen3 'it eques et plausu caua concutit ungula terram'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg
The horses are better; there is the dash of high venture in them; they have snuffed battle; their limbs are suppled to a bounding gallop,—as where in the Æneid, "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
Onomatopœia is the suiting of sound to sense; as,— quadrupedante putrem sonitū quatit ungula campum, 'And shake with horny hoofs the solid ground.'
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
The English verse which we call heroic consists of no more than ten syllables; the Latin hexameter sometimes rises to seventeen; as, for example, this verse in Virgil:- "Pulverulenta putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum."
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
In another famous onomatopoeic line— "Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula campum" —Virgil imitates the sound of a galloping horse, and the shaking of the ground beneath its hoofs.
From Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur H. Savory
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