English search results for: answers

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (answers question quid est res)
  2. quiddity, what a thing is, essence of a thing
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Roy J. Deferrari, “Dictionary of St”. Thomas Aquinas, 1960 (DeF)
#2

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. antistrophe, answers to the strophe in Greek/Roman tragedy
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
  • 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)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. denial, rhetorical device where one answers himself
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. one who answers
  2. responder
  • Age: Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
  • 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)