linea

linea is a Latin form of lineus, meaning “of linen, linen”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 78 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 4.3.5: … andidatus ita stertebat ut ego vicinus audirem. Clodi vestibulum vacuum sane mihi nuntiabatur, pauci pannosi, linea lanterna. meo consilio omnia illi fieri querebantur ignari quantum in illo heroe esset animi, quantum etiam c …

Lucan, Civil War 10.306: Linea tam rectum mundi ferit illa Leonem.

All forms of lineus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.