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#1076
adverb
Definitions:
- a small amount at a time, bit by bit
- little by little, by degrees, gradually
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1077
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- plants (pl.) cultivated by preparing (ground) by digging and leveling
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1078
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- German goddess, worshiped by traders who sailed across the North Sea
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
Netherlands
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Sent by users—mainly by John White of Blitz Latin
#1079
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (nutmeg grater?)
- (person from Connecticut is called nutmeger)
- nutmeger
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Age:
Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Calepinus Novus, “Modern Latin”, by Guy Licoppe (Cal)
#1080
adjective
Definitions:
- walled, surrounded by walls
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1081
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- (by Guido in teaching)
- monochord, instrument (1-string+soundboard)
- tonometer
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Sent by users—mainly by John White of Blitz Latin
#1082
noun
Definitions:
- (by Guido in teaching)
- monochord, instrument (1-string+soundboard)
- tonometer
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1083
noun
Definitions:
- (food from God for wandering Hebrews)
- manna
- [man hu => (Hebrew) what is this]
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1084
adjective
Definitions:
- from which there is no return
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1085
adverb
Definitions:
- (archaic form of interdiu)
- by day
- in the daytime
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Age:
Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1086
adjective
Definitions:
- from which there is no return
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1087
noun
Definitions:
- (food from God for wandering Jews)
- what (Hebrew)
- [man hu => what is this]
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
William Whitaker’s personal guess
#1088
noun
Definitions:
- (Hebrew)
- holocaust
- whole burnt offering, sacrifice wholly consumed by fire
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
William Whitaker’s personal guess
#1089
noun
Definitions:
- (Hebrew)
- holocaust
- whole burnt offering, sacrifice wholly consumed by fire
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#1090
interjection
Definitions:
- oh! ow! oh dear! goodness gracious! (used by women to express consternation)
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1091
adjective
Definitions:
- on a (spear) shaft
- supported by a shaft/staff
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#1092
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- idle dreamer, silly fellow
- one who is wandering in mind
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1093
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: transitive
Definitions:
- establish by treaty/league (L+S)
- ratify (an agreement)
- seal
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1094
adjective
Definitions:
- blown, of/produced by blowing
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1095
adverb
Definitions:
- by way of pretense/sham
- falsely
- in fictitious/pretended manner
- in pretense
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#1096
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- enfeofee
- land recipient by fief under feudal system
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Age:
Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
#1097
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- (chair with armrest but no back)
- (used by bishop not in his church)
- faldstool
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#1098
adverb
Definitions:
- (cited as example of pedantry by Quintilianus)
- easily
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1099
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- soothsayer who practices divination by observation of entrails of victim
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#1100
adverb
Definitions:
- by mistake
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
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