Latin search results for: ancilla

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (opprobrious of man)
  2. handmaid
  3. maid servant
  4. nun (selfdescribed)
  5. slave girl
  • 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)
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. act as handmaid, wait on, serve hand and foot
  2. be subservient/at beck and call
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. appropriate/characteristic to that position
  2. of/having status of female slave
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. lover of maid-servants (L+S)
  2. pursuer of slave girls
  • 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)
#5

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. service of a (female) slave
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • 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)