effemino

ef-fēmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [femina], to make feminine. *

I.

Lit.:

effeminarunt eum (sc. aërem) Junonique tribuerunt,

Cic. N. D. 2, 26, 66.—

II.

Trop., to make womanish, effeminate, to enervate:

fortitudinis praecepta sunt, quae effeminari virum vetant in dolore,

Cic. Fin. 2, 29, 94: corpus animumque virilem, * Sall. C. 11, 3:

animos,

Caes. B. G. 1, 1, 3:

homines (with remollescere),

id. ib. 4, 2 fin.; cf.:

cogitationibus mollissimis effeminamur,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 40:

vultus,

id. Or. in Clod. Fragm. 5, p. 153 ed. Orell.:

illa elocutio res ipsas effeminat,

Quint. 8 prooëm. § 20.—

B.

Meton. (causa pro effectu), to dishonor, disgrace, Claud. in Eutrop. 1, 10.—Hence, effēmĭnātus, a, um, P. a.

A.

Womanish, effeminate (cf.:

mollis, luxuriosus, dissolutus): ne quid effeminatum aut molle sit,

Cic. Off. 1, 35, 129; cf. id. Tusc. 4, 30:

intolerabile est servire impuro, impudico, effeminato,

id. Phil. 3, 5; so absol., Col. praef. § 15; cf.

histrio,

Tert. Spect. 25:

furialis illa vox, religiosis altaribus effeminata,

Cic. Planc. 35, 86:

effeminata ac levis opinio,

id. Tusc. 2, 22, 52:

effeminata et enervis compositio,

Quint. 9, 4, 142; cf. id. 1, 8, 2; 2, 5, 10 al.— Comp.:

multitudo Cypriorum,

Val. Max. 9, 3 fin.—Sup.: animi languor, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 27. —

B.

In mal. part., that submits to unnatural lust:

pathicus,

Suet. Aug. 68; Auct. Priap. 58, 2; Vulg. 3 Reg. 14, 24 al.— Adv.: effēmĭnāte, effeminately (acc. to A.), Cic. Off. 1, 4 fin.; Sen. Cons. ad Polyb. 36; Val. Max. 2, 7, 9.