English search results for: Was
#1
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: common
Definitions:
- butt (beam)
- forefeet
- heel
- kick (Roman toe was unprotected)
- pad (dog)
- spur
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2
noun
Definitions:
- Androgeos (son of Minos and Pasiphae, whose death was avenged on Athens)
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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)
#3
noun
Definitions:
- (town where Christ was born)
- inhabitant/citizen of Bethlehem
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
William Whitaker’s personal guess
#4
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- communal sacrificial feast at which the flesh of the victim was shared among
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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:
General, unknown or too common to say
#5
adverb
Definitions:
- contrariwise
- in opposite directions
- in opposition (to what was said/written)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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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)
#6
adjective
Definitions:
- past, that passed or was spent previously
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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)
#7
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- marriage ceremony, in which meal/grain (far) was given as an offering
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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)
#8
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- a trace
- strap by which a horse was fastened to a vehicle
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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:
Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#9
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- bird
- fish
- mythical bird into which Scylla daughter of Nisus was changed
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Mythology
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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)
#10
adjective
Definitions:
- (as ancients whose toga was girded)
- girded/girt
- wearing girdle or loin-cloth
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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)
#11
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- plant from which asafoetida was obtained
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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:
Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#12
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- plant, from which ointment was prepared
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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:
Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#13
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- cutting (down/off), felling (of trees)
- pause in verse
- that which was cut off
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#14
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- sum or weight of one as (penny), a pound (as was originally a pound of copper)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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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)
#15
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- place in temple where image of deity was preserved and his servants abode
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#16
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- place in temple where image of deity was preserved and his servants abode
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#17
noun
Definitions:
- camel thorn (Vulgate)
- thorny shrub from which fragrant oil was obtained
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#18
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- camel thorn (Vulgate)
- thorny shrub from which fragrant oil was obtained
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#19
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
- murex, purple-fish
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#20
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- (where new wine was boiled down)
- cauldron-room
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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:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#21
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- room in which confirmation was administered
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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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:
L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#22
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- criminal
- debtor
- one who was condemned at Columna Maenia
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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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)
#23
adjective
Definitions:
- of/pertaining to dried wood
- [~ taberna => place where dried wood was sold]
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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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)
#24
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
- murex, purple-fish
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#25
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- camel thorn (Vulgate)
- thorny shrub from which fragrant oil was obtained
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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:
William Whitaker’s personal guess