verbthird-declension one-termination participle
olēns
olēns (genitive olentis)
Meaning
- one terminationparticiplesmelling, stinking, odorous, fragrant
ŏlens, entis, Part. and P. a., from oleo.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
olēns entis, adj.
P. of oleo, smelling, odorous: flos bene olentis anethi, V.—Sweet-smelling, fragrant, odoriferous: rami, V.: mentae, O.—Of an ill odor, rank, musty: maritus (i. e. hircus), H.: Membra, V.: fornix, H.: sulfure Stagna, O.: quaedam, Ta.
Origins
Present active participle from oleō (“smell; emit an odor”).