I.of flax or lint, flaxen, linen-: “vincula,” Verg. A. 5, 510: “terga,” the linen lining of a shield, id. ib. 10, 784: “vestes,” Plin. 12, 6, 13, § 25: “lanugo,” id. 32, 10, 44, § 126: “pannis lineis involvere,” Cels. 8, 10, 1.—Also subst.: līnĕum , a linen garment, Vulg. Ezech. 9, 2; id. ib. 10, 2 al.
līnĕus , a, um, adj. linum,