Latin search results for: opis

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. help
  2. influence
  3. power, might
  4. resources/wealth (pl.)
  • 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: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (spasms arch body backward)
  2. opisthotonos, body-curving disease
  3. ~ tetanus
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Biological, Medical, Body Parts
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. curved-backwards
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: Biological, Medical, Body Parts
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980