Latin search results for: ancilla
#1
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (opprobrious of man)
- handmaid
- maid servant
- nun (selfdescribed)
- slave girl
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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)
#2
verb
- conjugation: 1st conjugation
- voice: deponent
Definitions:
- act as handmaid, wait on, serve hand and foot
- be subservient/at beck and call
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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 20,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3
adjective
Definitions:
- appropriate/characteristic to that position
- of/having status of female slave
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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:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- lover of maid-servants (L+S)
- pursuer of slave girls
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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:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5
noun
- declension: 4th declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- service of a (female) slave
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)