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#2001

adjective

Definitions:

  1. of/from/belonging to Ephesus (city in Asia Minor), Ephesian
  • Age: Very early forms, obsolete by classical times
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: Near East
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2002

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. adolescent (age 18-20 by Athenian law)
  2. boy (Greek) at age of puberty
  3. youth
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: Greece
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2003

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. argument by elimination
  2. enumeration, act of listing
  3. recapitulation/summing up
  • 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)
#2004

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. deprive of life
  2. exhaust/wear out, plague/torture to death
  3. kill off
  4. kill/slay
  • 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)
#2005

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. cut/remove sinews from
  2. deprive of vigor
  3. make effeminate
  4. weaken, enervate
  • 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)
#2006

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. deprive of life
  2. exhaust/wear out, plague/torture to death
  3. kill off
  4. kill/slay
  • 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)
#2007

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: deponent

Definitions:

  1. (day)
  2. sprout/spring forth, arise/be born out of something by natural growth
  • 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)
#2008

verb

  • conjugation: 1st conjugation
  • voice: transitive

Definitions:

  1. clean thoroughly, free of dirt/impurity
  2. cleanse/purify
  3. make quite clean (L+S)
  • 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)
#2009

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. act of buying/purchasing
  2. deed of purchase
  3. purchase/acquisition, thing bought
  • 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)
#2010

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. piece of bark used in budding, "shield"/"scutcheon"
  2. plaster/bandage
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Biological, Medical, Body Parts
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2011

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. amendment
  2. amends
  3. correction, removal of errors
  4. criticism
  5. improvement
  • 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)
#2012

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. conveyance/transfer of property
  2. emancipation
  3. release from patria potestas
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2013

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. eloquence
  2. manner of speaking, diction
  3. pronouncement
  4. speech, utterance/word
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2014

adjective

Definitions:

  1. articulate, able in speech;
  2. eloquent, expressing thoughts fluently/forcefully
  • 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)
#2015

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (of meat)
  2. boiled
  • 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)
#2016

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. furrow in grainfield for draining off water (usu. pl.), trench, drain, ditch
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2017

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. elephant
  2. elephantiasis
  3. ivory
  4. large variety of lobster, large sea creature
  • 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)
#2018

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. amber
  2. electron (Cal)
  3. electrum (alloy of gold and silver)
  • 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)
#2019

adverb

Definitions:

  1. haughtily, proudly
  2. in a grand/lofty style of speech/writing
  3. insolently
  • 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)
#2020

adverb

Definitions:

  1. effectually
  2. so as to take effect in law
  3. to good effect
  • 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)
#2021

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. little horse, colt
  2. rack, instrument of torture
  • 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)
#2022

adjective

Definitions:

  1. ecclesiastic, canonical, of/belonging to the Church
  2. of book of Sirach
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#2023

adjective

Definitions:

  1. decorated with/made partially out of ivory
  2. made of ivory
  3. white as ivory
  • 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)
#2024

adjective

Definitions:

  1. ivory, of ivory
  2. white as ivory, ivory-colored
  3. [dens ~ => elephant tusk]
  • 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)
#2025

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. curule chair (of magistrate)
  2. elephant/tusk
  3. ivory
  4. object/statue of ivory
  • 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)

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