English search results for: principal
#1
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- baptistry
- font
- principal cause
- source/fount
- spring, fountain, well
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#2
adjective
Definitions:
- first, foremost/best, chief, principal
- nearest/next
- [in primis => especially]
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#3
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- company at dinner
- course
- dinner/supper, principal Roman meal (evening)
- meal
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- chief point, essence, principal matter, substance
- sum
- summary
- total
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#5
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- chapter, principal division
- heading
- [~ super pedibus => head over heels]
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Age:
Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#6
adjective
Definitions:
- chief, principal, most prominent/powerful
- foremost
- strongest
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#7
adjective
Definitions:
- chief, principal
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#8
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- abbot (Russian or Oriental monastery)
- chief/principal monk
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)