English search results for: descent

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 3rd conjugation
  • voice: intransitive

Definitions:

  1. be reduced
  2. demean
  3. drop/become lower (pitch)
  4. stoop
  5. trace descent/come down
  • 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

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. generation
  2. offspring, descendant
  3. race, breed
  4. that springs by birth/descent
  • 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)
#3

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. attack/charge downhill
  2. descent
  3. downward course/slope/rush/fall/flow
  4. maneuver
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (noble) birth/descent
  2. fame/excellence
  3. nobility/noble class
  4. rank
  5. the nobles
  • 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
#5

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. action/means/way of descent
  2. decent, climbing/getting down
  3. lying down (rude)
  • 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)
#6

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. gable, roof
  2. peak, summit, top
  3. sharp point, tip
  4. slope, declivity, descent
  • 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
#7

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. birth/descent/origin
  2. offspring/descent
  3. race/family/house/stock/ancestry
  • 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
#8

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (sunken) bath
  2. descent, action of going down
  3. sailing down
  • 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)
#9

adjective

Definitions:

  1. descent, descending, coming down
  • 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)
#10

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. declivity, slope, descent
  2. falling gradient
  3. tendency to slope down
  • 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)