English search results for: firm but fair
#126
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- linking two words of different meaning but like sound, paronomasia
- punning/pun
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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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)
#127
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- plant resembling amomum (eastern spice plant) but inferior in fragrance
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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)