Latin search results for: clivus

#1

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. (street name)
  2. inclined passage/surface
  3. slope (sg.), incline
  4. sloping ground
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Technical, Architecture, Topography, Surveying
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (having bad omens?)
  2. which forbid anything to be done (pl.)
  • 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)