English search results for: backward
#1
adverb
Definitions:
- on the contrary/other hand, in return, in turn, again
- turned back, backward
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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:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#2
adjective
Definitions:
- facing in specified direction
- inverted
- recurved
- turned backward
- upside down
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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)
#3
adjective
Definitions:
- rolling backward
- that may be rolled back to the beginning
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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
#4
adverb
Definitions:
- on the contrary/other hand, in return, in turn, again
- turned back, backward
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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
noun
Definitions:
- (spasms arch body backward)
- opisthotonos, body-curving disease
- ~ tetanus
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Biological, Medical, Body Parts
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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)
#6
noun
- declension: 4th declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- backward or yielding movement
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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)