English search results for: posture

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. correctness (spelling)
  2. erect posture
  3. rectitude
  4. straightness
  5. uprightness
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#2

adverb

Definitions:

  1. doubled up (with old age)
  2. squatting on the haunches in a crouching posture
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. of a reclining posture (L+S)
  2. suitable for reclining in at dinner
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)