English search results for: govern

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation

Definitions:

  1. (se gerere = to conduct oneself)
  2. bear, carry, wear
  3. carry on
  4. manage, govern
  • 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
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. steer, drive, pilot, direct, manage, conduct, guide, control, govern
  • 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
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. control
  2. govern
  3. guide
  4. regulate
  • 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
#4

verb

  • conjugation: 2nd conjugation
  • voice: dative

Definitions:

  1. keep/watch/stand//guard (over)
  2. preside (over)
  3. supervise/govern/control
  • 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)
#5

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. command, govern
  • 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
#6

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. ex-praetor
  2. one sent to govern a province as praetor
  • 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

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. rectify, regulate, control, govern/direct by rule/regulation
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#8

adjective

Definitions:

  1. adjectival
  2. conjunctions that govern subjunctive mood (L+S)
  3. joined/added
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)