English search results for: mountains

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. high ground
  2. hill, hillock, eminence, hill-top
  3. mound
  4. mountains (pl.) (poetic)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. Alps (usually pl.), mountains to the north of Italy
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. wandering over the mountains
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#4

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. dwellers (pl.) beyond the mountains
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#5

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. beyond-mountains-dweller
  2. one who lives beyond the mountains
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. that dwells/situated on this/near side of mountains
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)