English search results for: comet

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. hair
  2. lock of hair, tress, plait
  3. plume (helmet)
  4. tail of a comet
  • 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)
#2

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (portent of disaster)
  2. comet
  3. luminous body in sky w/trail/tail
  4. meteor
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. (typhoon/cyclone)
  2. name given to a comet by Pharaoh
  3. violent whirlwind/tornado
  • 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)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. hair-like
  2. hairy
  3. having long locks, long haired
  4. [stella crinita => comet]
  • 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
#5

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (portent of disaster)
  2. comet
  3. luminous body in sky w/trail/tail
  4. meteor
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#6

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. kind of comet/meteor
  2. kind of fiery meteors (pl.) (L+S)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. horn-shaped comet
  • 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)