adjective

fūmōsus

fem. fūmōsa · neut. fūmōsum

full of smoke; smoking; smoky

full of smoke, smoking, smoky, smoked (class.).

kept in the smokechamber; to ripen ••

Lit.: ligna, Cato, R. R. 130: flamma, id. ib. 38, 4: fax, Petr. 97: December (because many fires are then made), Mart. 5, 30, 5: paries, well smoked, smoky, Petr. 135: imagines (with age), Cic. Pis. 1, 1; cf.: magistri equitum, Juv. 8, 8: perna, smoke-dried, Hor. S. 2, 2, 117: Falerni, kept in the smokechamber (fumarium) to ripen, Tib. 2, 1, 27; so, cadus, Ov. F. 5, 518.—

smelling of smoke; smoky by extension •

Transf., smelling of smoke, smoky: defrutum, Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 319.

Perseus ID: n19024 Key: fumosus