English search results for: diminishing

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. destroying/diminishing/weakening/impairing
  2. reduction (food chewing/digestion)
  • 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: feminine

Definitions:

  1. diminishing, taking away from
  2. first fruit, sample, representative portion
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. lifting (action)
  2. relief, mitigation, alleviation, lessening, diminishing
  • 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)