English search results for: contests

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. commencement/holding (of games/other contests)
  2. event
  3. speech opening games
  • 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)
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. country deities
  2. deities who presided over contests/games (pl.)
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Only citation is inscription
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)