English search results for: avert

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#1

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. avert by prayer
  2. entreat/pray/beg
  3. intercede/beg pardon/mercy/relief/exemption
  • 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: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. defend (right)
  2. repel, fend/ward off, avert/prevent
  3. support/preserve/maintain
  • 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: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation

Definitions:

  1. avert
  2. dislodge
  3. force to withdraw/desist
  4. rebut
  5. turn out/dismiss
  6. veer away
  • 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: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

verb

  • conjugation: 2nd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. deter
  2. discourage (from), put/keep off, avert
  3. frighten away
  4. frighten/terrify
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. avert, ward off by entreaty
  2. call down solemn curse on, execrate
  3. detest/loathe
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

verb

  • conjugation: 4th conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. avert, refute
  2. get rid of, dispose of, remove, obliterate
  3. remove, clear away
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. avert (trouble) by expiation
  2. discharge (debt)
  3. |fulfill (promise), make good
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#8

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation

Definitions:

  1. spit (out/down/upon), spurn/reject, abhor
  2. spit on ground (avert evil/disease)
  • 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)
#9

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. extenuation
  2. invocation
  3. prayer to avert/ward off
  4. supplication/entreaty/plea
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#10

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. act in defense against
  2. avert constantly
  3. defend/guard/protect against
  4. ward off
  • 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)
#11

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. avert (something bad), ward off
  • 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)
#12

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. (seek to) avert (omen/eventuality) (by prayer)
  2. avert
  3. loathe, detest, abhor
  • 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)
#13

adjective

Definitions:

  1. relating to purification
  2. serving to avert evil
  3. [fons ~ => holy water font]
  • 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
#14

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. pound, batter
  2. repulse, drive back/off
  3. ward off, repel, avert
  • 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
#15

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. avert by expiatory rites
  2. expiate, atone for
  • 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
#16

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. guard against, avert
  2. guard, protect, defend
  • 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
#17

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. guard against, avert
  2. guard, protect, defend
  • 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
#18

adjective

Definitions:

  1. serving to avert (L+S)
  2. that averts evil
  • 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)
#19

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. spells (pl.) to avert evil
  • 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)
#20

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. avert, ward off by entreaty
  2. call down solemn curse on, execrate
  3. detest/loathe
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • 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)
#21

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. exorcise
  2. reverence/worship (L+S)
  3. ward off by religious rite, avert by prayers
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#22

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation

Definitions:

  1. avert by prayer
  2. entreat/pray/beg
  3. intercede/beg pardon/mercy/relief/exemption
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: William Whitaker’s personal guess
#23

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. hail-guard (official at Cleonae whose duty it was to avert hail by sacrifice)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#24

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. (seek to) avert (omen/eventuality) (by prayer)
  2. avert
  3. loathe, detest, abhor
  • 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)
#25

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. act which averts evil
  2. amulet/charm (to avert evil)
  3. power to avert evil
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)

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