English search results for: It's feast or famine
#951
noun
Definitions:
- kind of lizard or snake
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#952
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- copper coin (of small value, one tenth obol, one 60th or 40th of a drachma)
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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:
Greece
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#953
adjective
Definitions:
- made from grass or fodder
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#954
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- guardian of chest or wardrobe
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#955
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- action of grazing down or stripping the food from
- feeding (L+S)
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#956
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- falling off/out
- flowing down/off (L+S)
- loss by flowing or falling away
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#957
adjective
Definitions:
- epithet of spurge laurel Daphne laureola
- kind of clematis (or cassia L+S)
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#958
adjective
Definitions:
- chalk-like, creataceous (L+S)
- resembling chalk or pipe-clay
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#959
adjective
Definitions:
- having fingers or toes (L+S)
- having toes
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#960
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- head/poll-tax or levy
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#961
noun
Definitions:
- kind of wild goat or antelope
- stag with beard like goat (horse-stag) (L+S)
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#962
adjective
Definitions:
- of/concerned with armaments or military equipment
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
War, Military, Naval, Ships, Armor
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#963
noun
Definitions:
- iron-gray stoner from Arcadia (not common asbestos) (L+S)
- mineral or gem
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#964
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- precious stone, either asteriated (star) sapphire or cymophane (cats-eye)?
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#965
adjective
Definitions:
- that listens to or heeds (prayers/supplication)
- understanding, listening
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#966
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (perh. skate or ray)
- fish
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#967
adjective
Definitions:
- of sacred place (place struck by lightning) or of sacrifice offered there
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#968
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- kind of salve or plaster
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Biological, Medical, Body Parts
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#969
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- kind of salve or plaster
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Biological, Medical, Body Parts
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#970
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- fish (bogue or boce) (Box vulgaris)
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#971
adjective
Definitions:
- Bucolic poems (pl.) of Virgil or Theocritus
- plant (all-heal/mistletoe)
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#972
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- rose-seller, seller of roses or rose garlands
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#973
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- head/poll-tax or levy
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#974
adjective
Definitions:
- relating to head/poll-tax or levy
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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:
Only citation is inscription
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#975
noun
Definitions:
- (also called chamaepitys or hypericon)
- plant
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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:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)