English search results for: consuming

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. devouring, consuming, destructive
  2. greedy, rapacious, voracious, gluttonous
  • 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
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. act of squandering/wasting/using up
  2. consuming/devouring consumption
  • 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)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. conflagration (L+S)
  2. consuming by fire
  3. destruction
  4. destruction by fire
  • 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)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. consuming
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#5

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. a consuming
  2. act of spending/using up
  3. consumption
  • 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)
#6

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. eating, consuming
  • 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)
#7

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. consuming
  • 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)
#8

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. consumption, process of consuming or wearing away
  2. employing, use
  3. wasting
  • 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)
#9

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. burning, consuming
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • 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)
#10

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. burning, consuming
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • 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)