Latin search results for: abus

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. abuse
  2. curse
  3. exhaust
  4. misapply (word)
  5. misuse
  6. spend
  7. use up
  8. waste, squander
  • 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: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. catachresis, loose/improper use of a word/term/metaphor
  2. use of wrong synonym
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adverb

Definitions:

  1. all the way from
  2. from/since the time of
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

preposition

  • type: takes an ablative object

Definitions:

  1. all the way from
  2. from/since the time of
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis, C.S., “Elementary Latin Dictionary”, 1891
#5

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. abusing, misuse, wasting
  2. using up
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

adverb

Definitions:

  1. loosely, catachresisly, by loose/improper use of language/term/metaphor
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7

adjective

Definitions:

  1. misapplied
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#8

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. he who misuses
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)