English search results for: mineral

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. leaf/flake/thin slab (mineral)
  2. rind/shell/peel/bark/crust, hard surface
  3. scab
  • 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: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. yellow/trisulphide of arsenic, bright yellow dye mineral, yellow orpiment
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. mineral
  2. ore
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
#4

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. agate?
  2. fluorspar
  3. highly prized mineral used for making vases
  • 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)
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. mineral-, having the nature of mineral
  2. obtained from the bowels of the earth
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Roy J. Deferrari, “Dictionary of St”. Thomas Aquinas, 1960 (DeF)
#6

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. mineral having properties similar to asbestos, chysolite?
  • 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)
#7

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. vegetable/wood ash (as substitute for mineral ash)
  • 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)
#8

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. iron-gray stoner from Arcadia (not common asbestos) (L+S)
  2. mineral or gem
  • 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)