English search results for: whirling

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. changing
  2. giddiness, dizziness
  3. gyration/rotation, whirling/spinning movement
  • 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)
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. circular motion
  2. fickleness (fate)
  3. fluency (speech)
  4. rapid turning, whirling
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. action of twisting/whirling/flinging around, twirling/swinging
  2. intertwining
  • 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)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. typhonic, whirling, violent
  2. [~ ventus => whirlwind/tornado]
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)