Latin search results for: prior

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. ahead, in front, leading
  2. basic
  3. former
  4. previous, earlier, preceding, prior
  • 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: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. (later) second in dignity to abbot/head of priory, prior
  2. superior/elder monk
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: C.H. Beeson, “A Primer of Medieval Latin”, 1925 (Bee)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. ancestors (pl.), forefathers, predecessors, people of an earlier time
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#4

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. ancestors (pl.), forefathers, predecessors, people of an earlier time
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#5

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. a logically prior proposition
  2. earlier times/events/actions
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#6

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. prioress
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#7

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. priority
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Sent by users—mainly by John White of Blitz Latin