English search results for: plaintive

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. complaining, plaintive
  • 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)
#2

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. plaintive cry
  2. wail
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • 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)