English search results for: sparing

#1

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. a short cut
  2. abridgement, compendium
  3. gain, profit
  4. shorthand
  5. sparing/saving
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. a short cut
  2. abridgement, compendium
  3. gain, profit
  4. shorthand
  5. sparing/saving
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. scanty, slight
  2. sparing, frugal
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#4

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. be sparing
  2. restrain
  3. spare
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. abstemious, staying away from liquor
  2. temperate/sparing in drink/food
  • 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)
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. abstemious, staying away from liquor
  2. temperate/sparing in drink/food
  • 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)
#7

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. spare, be sparing, abstain
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#8

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. spare, be sparing, abstain
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#9

adjective

Definitions:

  1. miserly, thoroughly mean/stingy
  2. niggardly, excessively sparing (L+S)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)