English search results for: Swift

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. early
  2. moving/acting/passing/occurring quickly, speedy
  3. quick, swift, rapid
  • 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

adjective

Definitions:

  1. early
  2. lively
  3. rash, hasty, hurried
  4. swift, quick, agile, rapid, speedy, fast
  • 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. rapid, swift
  • 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
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. agile, nimble, quick, swift
  2. alert (mind), active
  3. energetic, busy
  4. rousing
  • 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)
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. swift, quick, fleet, rapid, speedy
  • 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
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. early
  2. full gallop
  3. loose (bowels)
  4. quick, swift
  5. speeded up, hurried, urged on
  • 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)
#7

adjective

Definitions:

  1. able to fly
  2. flying
  3. in rapid motion, fleet/swift
  4. transient, fleeting
  5. winged
  • 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)
#8

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (COMP) arriving/appearing/occurring earlier/sooner
  2. swift/rapid, at speed
  • 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)
#9

adjective

Definitions:

  1. early/premature
  2. fast moving (troops)
  3. impatient, in a hurry
  4. swift/quick/rapid
  • 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)
#10

adjective

Definitions:

  1. of/serving to mark a cattle path/road between fields
  2. swift, nimble, light
  • 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)
#11

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (classical mostly applied to boats)
  2. fast, rapid, swift, fleet
  • Age: Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#12

adjective

Definitions:

  1. ales puer => Cupid]
  2. swift/quick
  3. winged, having wings
  4. [ales deus => Mercury
  • 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)
#13

adjective

Definitions:

  1. swift, moving with speed of flight, "flying"
  2. wing-footed
  • 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)
#14

adjective

Definitions:

  1. nimble, brisk, active, agile, quick, swift, fleet
  2. persistent, preserving
  • 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
#15

adjective

Definitions:

  1. fickle, changeable
  2. swift (as the wind)
  3. vain, puffed up
  4. windy
  • 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
#16

adjective

Definitions:

  1. avoiding, transitory
  2. flying swiftly
  3. swift
  • 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
#17

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. swift horse, hunter
  • 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)
#18

adjective

Definitions:

  1. agile, quick, swift, lively
  2. running fast (L+S)
  3. [laqueus ~ => running noose]
  • 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)
#19

adjective

Definitions:

  1. swift of foot
  2. swift-footed
  • 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)
#20

adjective

Definitions:

  1. swift of foot
  • 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: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#21

adjective

Definitions:

  1. fleet-footed, swift-footed
  2. swift, fleet
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • 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)
#22

adjective

Definitions:

  1. able to fly
  2. flying
  3. in rapid motion, fleet/swift
  4. transient, fleeting
  5. winged
  • 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)
#23

adjective

Definitions:

  1. rowing swiftly (L+S)
  2. swift (of a galley), having swift oars
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: War, Military, Naval, Ships, Armor
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#24

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. (perh. swift)
  2. bird
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)