English search results for: Word
#51
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (Greek borrowed word)
- harlot
- streetwalker
- whore
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
Greece
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
William Whitaker’s personal guess
#52
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- collection/list (pl.) of such words
- unusual word requiring interpretation
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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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)
#53
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- collar/yoke word by criminals (usu. pl. L+S)
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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)
#54
noun
- declension: 4th declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- command
- speaking, saying (action)
- speech
- word (Ecc)
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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)
#55
adverb
Definitions:
- literally, word to word
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Age:
Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th 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:
Calepinus Novus, “Modern Latin”, by Guy Licoppe (Cal)
#56
verb
- conjugation: 4th conjugation
- voice: intransitive
Definitions:
- hear a little
- understand, supply a word
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
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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)
#57
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (Sabine word)
- spear
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
War, Military, Naval, Ships, Armor
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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)
#58
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (Sabine word)
- spear
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
War, Military, Naval, Ships, Armor
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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)
#59
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- augural word (uncertain meaning)
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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:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#60
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- (facetiously an embrace)
- doubling
- reiteration/repetition (word/phrase)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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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)
#61
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- utterance, articulation
- word (Nelson)
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Age:
Medieval (11th-15th 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:
Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#62
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- forming
- G:form of word
- imagination
- shaping
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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:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#63
noun
Definitions:
- cacophony
- union of ugly/disagreeable sounds forming equivocal word/expression
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#64
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: masculine
Definitions:
- (word of doubtful meaning applied as abuse to decrepit gladiator)
- pug
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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:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#65
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- unusual word requiring explanation (contemptuous diminutive)
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#66
noun
- declension: 2nd declension
- gender: neuter
Definitions:
- derivation (L+S)
- derivative, word formed from another word
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#67
noun
Definitions:
- (separation of a compound word by interposition of another word OED)
- tmesis
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#68
interjection
Definitions:
- (magic word to cure bite of mad dog)
- Lo!
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Age:
Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#69
noun
Definitions:
- (meaningless word used in choral books to show some vowel sounds)
- evovae
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Age:
Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
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Area:
Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#70
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- dropping a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#71
noun
Definitions:
- rhetorical figure when several parts of a period end with the same word
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#72
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- use of a word in a sense opposite to its proper meaning
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#73
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- repetition of the same word
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#74
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- improper preceding reference
- repetition of word beginning successive clauses
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#75
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- distinction, repetition of word w/different meanings
- uncertainty
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Age:
Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
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Area:
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
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Source:
Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)