English search results for: shell
#1
adverb
Definitions:
- for/within a short distance/time
- quickly
- shortly, briefly, in a nut shell
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- layer/coating
- peel/rind/shell/outer cover
- skin/leather/hide
- thong/strap/whip
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- body armor
- clothing
- covering/cover/protection
- skin/shell/husk (animal/fruit)
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form of) a snail shell
- screw (press/water)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form of) a snail shell
- screw (press/water)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form of) a snail shell
- screw (press/water)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- stone (of fruit), shell (nut)
- wood thing/part, writing-tablet, spear shaft
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#8
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form) snail shell
- screw (press/water/wood)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#9
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- body armor
- clothing
- covering/cover/protection
- skin/shell/husk (animal/fruit)
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#10
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: common
Definitions:
- bark
- cork
- outer covering, shell, carapace, chrysalis
- skin, rind, husk, hull
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#11
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- leaf/flake/thin slab (mineral)
- rind/shell/peel/bark/crust, hard surface
- scab
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#12
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- body armor
- clothing
- covering/cover/protection
- skin/shell/husk (animal/fruit)
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#13
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (curved) trumpet, war trumpet
- bugle, watch-horn
- horn
- shell Triton blew
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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:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#14
adjective
Definitions:
- having hard covering/shell
- made of brick/tile
- resembling brick (esp. color)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequency:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#15
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- body armor
- clothing
- covering/cover/protection
- skin/shell/husk (animal/fruit)
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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:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#16
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (curved) trumpet, war trumpet
- bugle, watch-horn
- shell Triton blew
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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:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#17
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- body armor
- clothing
- covering/cover/protection
- skin/shell/husk (animal/fruit)
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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:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#18
noun
Definitions:
- lyre, harp
- tortoise
- tortoise shell (from which lyres were made)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Frequency:
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#19
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- body armor
- clothing
- covering/cover/protection
- skin/shell/husk (animal/fruit)
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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:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#20
adjective
Definitions:
- having hard covering/shell
- made of brick/tile
- resembling brick (esp. color)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#21
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- boat, ship, vessel
- half walnut shell
- keel, bottom of ship, hull
- voyage
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
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Frequency:
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#22
noun
Definitions:
- constellation Lyra
- lyre/harp (made originally from a tortoise shell)
- tortoise
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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:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#23
noun
Definitions:
- lyre, harp
- tortoise
- tortoise shell (from which lyres were made)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#24
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- layer/coating
- peel/rind/shell/outer cover
- skin/leather/hide
- thong/strap/whip
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Age:
Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#25
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- bag or sack
- follicle (Cal)
- pod
- shell
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Frequency:
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say