English search results for: backward

#1

adverb

Definitions:

  1. on the contrary/other hand, in return, in turn, again
  2. turned back, backward
  • 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

adjective

Definitions:

  1. facing in specified direction
  2. inverted
  3. recurved
  4. turned backward
  5. upside down
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. rolling backward
  2. that may be rolled back to the beginning
  • 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

adverb

Definitions:

  1. on the contrary/other hand, in return, in turn, again
  2. turned back, backward
  • 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: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (spasms arch body backward)
  2. opisthotonos, body-curving disease
  3. ~ tetanus
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Biological, Medical, Body Parts
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#6

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. backward or yielding movement
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)