English search results for: snail
#1
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form) snail shell
- screw (press/water/wood)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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:
- (form of) a snail shell
- screw (press/water)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form of) a snail shell
- screw (press/water)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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)
#4
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (form of) a snail shell
- screw (press/water)
- snail
- spiral
- winding entrance
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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)
#5
adjective
Definitions:
- cochlear, pertaining to the (snail-like) inner ear
- of/like snail
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Age:
Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)
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Area:
Biological, Medical, Body Parts
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
William Whitaker’s personal guess
#6
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- one with her house on her back, the snail
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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:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#7
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- small snail
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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)
#8
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- snailery, snail pen, enclosure for edible snails
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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)
#9
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- small snail
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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)
#10
adverb
Definitions:
- like a snail shell
- spirally
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#11
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- snailery, snail pen, enclosure for edible snails
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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)
#12
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: common
Definitions:
- slug
- snail
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#13
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- kind of gastropod mollusk
- kind of snail of dark color (L+S)
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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)
#14
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)