English search results for: sophistry

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. clever use of words (pl.), verbal trickery, sophistry
  2. refinement
  3. wit, jesting
  • 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. false accusation/claim/statement/pretenses/objection
  2. quibble
  3. sophistry, sham
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. false accusation/claim/statement/pretenses/objection
  2. quibble
  3. sophistry, sham
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. a sophistry/quibble
  2. deception/trick/fraud
  3. disadvantage, loss
  4. right to take
  • 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: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. raillery/banter/badinage, jeering/scoffing
  2. sophistry, quibbling, captiousness
  • 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)
#6

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. jest, banter
  2. make fun of, satirize, mock
  3. use sophistry, quibble, cavil (at)
  • 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)
#7

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. sophistry, verbal quibble
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#8

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. quibbler (female), captious critic, sophist
  2. sophistry
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)