English search results for: embracing

#1

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. closing, pressing together
  2. compression, pressure
  3. embracing/copulation
  • 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)
#2

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. closing, pressing together
  2. compression, pressure
  3. embracing/copulation
  • 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)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (of an embrace, embracing)
  2. doubling
  • Age: Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. coiling around, encircling, embracing
  2. latitudinal zone/band (of sky)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)