adverb
in unguem
in unguem (not comparable)
Classical[ˈɪn ˈʊŋ.ɡʷẽː]Ecclesiastical[ˈin ˈuŋ.ɡʷem]
Meaning
- not comparablesynonym of ad unguem
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:[…]
c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon II.274–278Ex 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..
c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De medicina VIII.3 - not comparableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, unguis.