English search results for: mysterious

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. confidential
  2. intimate, personal
  3. mysterious, esoteric
  4. secret, private, hidden
  • 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

adjective

Definitions:

  1. mysterious
  2. of a mystery/secret rite
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. mystical
  2. of/belonging to/used in sacred mysteries/rites
  3. secret, mysterious
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

adverb

Definitions:

  1. covertly, in a dark/mysterious manner
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. inscrutable, entirely mysterious, unfathomable
  2. unknowable
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)