English search results for: foolishness

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. emptiness, untruthfulness
  2. futility, foolishness, empty pride
  • 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
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. folly
  2. foolishness
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#3

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. foolishness
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#4

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. foolishness
  2. loss of reason
  3. want of understanding (L+S)
  • 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)