English search results for: Were
#1
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- comitia (pl.), assembly
- elections
- place in Forum where comitia were held
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2
adverb
Definitions:
- as if
- as it certainly is
- as it were
- as, just as
- in same way
- like
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#3
conjunction
Definitions:
- as it were, so to speak
- as much as
- as, just as, just as if
- so as
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#4
adverb
Definitions:
- about
- as if, just as if, as though
- as it were
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#5
adverb
Definitions:
- (just) as if
- as (if) it were
- as, in the same way/just as
- for example, like
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Frequent, top 2000+ words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6
preposition
- type: takes an ablative object
Definitions:
- (early)
- but for
- except for
- were it not for
- without, apart from, away from
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7
noun
Definitions:
- lyre, harp
- tortoise
- tortoise shell (from which lyres were made)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#8
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (late) stage, scaffold
- platform where slaves were exhibited for sale
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#9
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- leather sack in which parricides were sewn up and drowned
- this punishment
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#10
noun
Definitions:
- lyre, harp
- tortoise
- tortoise shell (from which lyres were made)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#11
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- leather sack in which parricides were sewn up and drowned
- this punishment
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#12
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- leather sack in which parricides were sewn up and drowned
- this punishment
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#13
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- couch for deity
- cushioned couch (on which images of the gods were placed)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#14
preposition
- type: takes an ablative object
Definitions:
- (early)
- but for
- except for
- were it not for
- without, apart from, away from
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#15
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- wagon on which the images of the gods were carried to public spectacles
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#16
adverb
Definitions:
- as if
- as it certainly is
- as it were
- as, just as
- in same way
- like
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#17
conjunction
Definitions:
- about
- as if, just as if, as though
- as it were
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#18
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (from valley near Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to Moloch)
- hell
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#19
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- part of temple where votive offerings were received/stored
- treasure chamber
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#20
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- shrine/site where the rites of Bacchus were celebrated
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#21
conjunction
Definitions:
- as it were, so to speak
- as much as
- as, just as, just as if
- so as
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#22
conjunction
Definitions:
- as if
- as it certainly is
- as it were
- as, just as
- in same way
- like
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#23
adjective
Definitions:
- of/pertaining to place where dead bodies were burned
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#24
adjective
Definitions:
- (from valley where children were sacrificed to Moloch)
- hellish, of hell
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
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Geography:
Near East
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#25
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- prostitute (who often were found near the mill grinding alica), "mill girl"
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)