English search results for: murex

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. female genitalia
  2. mollusk/murex/oyster/scallop
  3. pearl/mollusk-shell
  4. Triton horn
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. female genitalia
  2. mollusk/murex/oyster/scallop
  3. pearl/mollusk-shell
  4. Triton horn
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. mollusk, murex/purple-fish
  2. plant iasine
  3. purple, purple dye/garments (pl.)
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. mollusk, murex/purple-fish
  2. plant iasine
  3. purple, purple dye/garments (pl.)
  • 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)
#5

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. (one who dyes with murex/purple-fish dye)
  2. purple dyer
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Leverett, F.P., “Lexicon of the Latin Language”, Boston 1845
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. clothed in purple
  2. of a purple color
  3. purple-dyed (dye from murex/mussel)
  • 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)
#7

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. one who harvests/gathers mollusks/murex/oysters
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Leverett, F.P., “Lexicon of the Latin Language”, Boston 1845
#8

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. collector of mussels
  2. he who goes in quest for murex/purple-fish (Leverett)
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • 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)
#9

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
  2. murex, purple-fish
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#10

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. one who harvests/gathers mollusks/murex/oysters
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#11

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
  2. murex, purple-fish
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • 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)
#12

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
  2. murex, purple-fish
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#13

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. kind of murex/snail yielding purple dye (L+S)
  2. small shell-fish
  3. whelk
  4. winkle
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)