English search results for: murex
#1
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- female genitalia
- mollusk/murex/oyster/scallop
- pearl/mollusk-shell
- Triton horn
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- female genitalia
- mollusk/murex/oyster/scallop
- pearl/mollusk-shell
- Triton horn
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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:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- mollusk, murex/purple-fish
- plant iasine
- purple, purple dye/garments (pl.)
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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 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- mollusk, murex/purple-fish
- plant iasine
- purple, purple dye/garments (pl.)
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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 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- (one who dyes with murex/purple-fish dye)
- purple dyer
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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:
Leverett, F.P., “Lexicon of the Latin Language”, Boston 1845
#6
adjective
Definitions:
- clothed in purple
- of a purple color
- purple-dyed (dye from murex/mussel)
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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)
#7
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- one who harvests/gathers mollusks/murex/oysters
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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:
Leverett, F.P., “Lexicon of the Latin Language”, Boston 1845
#8
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- collector of mussels
- he who goes in quest for murex/purple-fish (Leverett)
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#9
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
- murex, purple-fish
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#10
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- one who harvests/gathers mollusks/murex/oysters
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#11
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
- murex, purple-fish
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#12
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- a shellfish from which (royal) purple dye was obtained)
- murex, purple-fish
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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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)
#13
noun
Definitions:
- kind of murex/snail yielding purple dye (L+S)
- small shell-fish
- whelk
- winkle
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)