English search results for: precious

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#51

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (deep red of a precious stone)
  2. carnelian/sardian
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • 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)
#52

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. precious stone
  2. wax-stone (L+S)
  • 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)
#53

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. precious stone also called chrysocolla (magnetic pyrite? L+S)
  • 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)
#54

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (OLD says neuter)
  2. precious stone (w/magical properties)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#55

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. precious stone
  • 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)
#56

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. kind of wine
  2. smoky specimen/variety of some precious stone
  3. smoky topaz (L+S)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#57

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. precious stone
  • 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)
#58

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. precious stone (onyx?, chalcedon?)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#59

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (crystalline, found in India, sapphire? L+S)
  2. precious stone
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: India
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#60

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (saronyx and nicolo)
  2. precious stone found in Egypt
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: Egypt
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#61

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. precious stone, either asteriated (star) sapphire or cymophane (cats-eye)?
  • 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)
#62

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. unknown precious stone
  • 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)
#63

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. pale green precious stone
  2. turquoise
  • 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)
#64

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. greenish-blue/sea-green precious stone
  2. turquoise
  • 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)
#65

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. (having in it a figure of a Spanish fly L+S)
  2. precious stone
  • 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)
#66

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. kind of wine
  2. smoky specimen/variety of some precious stone
  3. smoky topaz (L+S)
  • 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)
#67

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. precious stone (black in color with gleams of light crossing the middle)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#68

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. smoky precious stone
  2. substance deposited by copper furnace smoke, ZnO/tutty
  • 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)
#69

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. precious stone (diamond?) (used in hydromancy/divination from water signs)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#70

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. crab-colored precious stone
  • 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)
#71

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. precious stone (unknown, diamond?) (as remedy for sadness)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#72

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. unknown precious stone (said to have an adhesive surface) (from Corsica L+S)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#73

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. precious stone also called chrysocolla (magnetic pyrite? L+S)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#74

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. precious stone
  • 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)
#75

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. precious stone (unknown)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)

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