English search results for: principal

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. baptistry
  2. font
  3. principal cause
  4. source/fount
  5. spring, fountain, well
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. first, foremost/best, chief, principal
  2. nearest/next
  3. [in primis => especially]
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. company at dinner
  2. course
  3. dinner/supper, principal Roman meal (evening)
  4. meal
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. chief point, essence, principal matter, substance
  2. sum
  3. summary
  4. total
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#5

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. chapter, principal division
  2. heading
  3. [~ super pedibus => head over heels]
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. chief, principal, most prominent/powerful
  2. foremost
  3. strongest
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#7

adjective

Definitions:

  1. chief, principal
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#8

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. abbot (Russian or Oriental monastery)
  2. chief/principal monk
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)