English search results for: timid [shy diffident]

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. afraid to
  2. cowardly
  3. fearful, apprehensive
  4. timid
  5. without courage
  • 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)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. discouraged/worried (Souter)
  2. fainthearted, timid, pusillanimous
  3. meanspirited
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. frightful
  2. timid
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. discouraged/worried (Souter)
  2. fainthearted, timid, pusillanimous
  3. meanspirited
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. discouraged/worried (Souter)
  2. fainthearted, timid, pusillanimous
  3. meanspirited
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949