noun · femininethird declension
struēs
struēs f (genitive struis)
Classical[ˈstru.eːs]Ecclesiastical[ˈstruː.es]
Meaning
- heap, pile
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
cumulus, acervusstruēs -is (f) — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 15
acervus, cumulusstruēs -is (f) — in Aeneis, ch. 12
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | struēs | struēs |
| genitive | struis | struium |
| dative | struī | struibus |
| accusative | struem struim | struēs struīs |
| ablative | strue | struibus |
| vocative | struēs | struēs |
strŭes, is, f. id.,
I. a heap, pile of things put together.
I. In gen. (class.;
syn.: acervus, cumulus, congeries): laterum, Cic. Att. 5, 12, 3: corporum, Liv. 23, 5; Tac. H. 2, 70; 3, 83: lignorum, Liv. 21, 37; Plin. 16, 11, 22, § 53: arma cum telis in strue mixta, Ov. P. 2, 1, 40: rogi, a funeral pile, pyre, Tac. G. 27; Luc. 8, 757; Sen. Phoen. 112; id. Oedip. 33: uvarum, Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 51 et saep.: (milites Macedones) confusa strue implicantur, a heap, mass, phalanx, Liv. 44, 41, 7.—Collect., with a verb in the plur.: LOCVS QVO EA STRVES CONGERANTVR, i. e. piles of wood, Cenot. Pis. I. (in Inscr. Orell. 642).—II. In partic., in relig. lang., a heap of little offering-cakes:
strues genera liborum sunt, digitorum conjunctorum non dissimilia, qui superjecta panicula in transversum continentur, Fest. p. 310 Müll.; cf. id. s. v. ferctum, p. 85; cf. Cato, R. R. 134, 2; 141, 4; Ov. F. 1, 276; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. p. 403.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
struēs is, f
STRV-, a heap, pile : laterum: lignorum, L.: Arma cum telis in strue mixta, O.: rogi, a funeral pile , Ta.: (milites) confusā strue implicantur, a mass (the phalanx), L.— A heap of little sacrificial cakes , O.
Origins
From struō (“to pile up, construct”) + -ēs. Cognate with English strain.