English search results for: oldest
#1
adjective
Definitions:
- greatest/biggest/largest
- highest, utmost
- leading, chief
- longest
- oldest
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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:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2
adjective
Definitions:
- greatest/biggest/largest
- highest, utmost
- leading, chief
- longest
- oldest
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Age:
Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3
adjective
Definitions:
- first-born
- oldest (child)
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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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:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#4
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- ensign
- oldest class of veterans (under Empire)
- standard-bearer
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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:
General, unknown or too common to say
#5
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- birth-right, right of the first-born/oldest (child)
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)