English search results for: spurious

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. wrong, lying, fictitious, spurious, false, deceiving, feigned, deceptive
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. deceitful, treacherous
  2. false, fallacious
  3. misleading, deceptive
  4. spurious
  • 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)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. outline
  2. pretended, feigned, spurious
  3. sketchy, shadowy, unsubstantial, obscure
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. spurious, not genuine/canonical, apocryphal
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. bastard
  2. impure
  3. spurious
  • 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
#6

adjective

Definitions:

  1. cross-bred, mixed, mongrel
  2. false, spurious
  3. illegitimate (known father)
  • 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
#7

adjective

Definitions:

  1. spurious
  2. substituted, counterfeit
  • 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)
#8

adjective

Definitions:

  1. not genuine
  2. put in the place of another
  3. spurious
  4. substituted
  • Age: Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Found in a translation; no dictionary reference
#9

adjective

Definitions:

  1. not genuine
  2. put in the place of another
  3. spurious
  4. substituted
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Found in a translation; no dictionary reference
#10

adjective

Definitions:

  1. spurious
  2. substituted, counterfeit
  • 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)
#11

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. bastard, son of an unknown father
  2. illegitimate child, spurious child
  • 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)
#12

adjective

Definitions:

  1. of illegitimate/irregular/out of wedlock birth
  2. spurious, false
  • 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)
#13

adjective

Definitions:

  1. grafted
  2. spurious
  • 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)
#14

adjective

Definitions:

  1. spurious, base
  2. [w/fontes => impure/unhealthy spring/source]
  • 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: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#15

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. adulteration
  2. corruption/debasement by spurious admixture/crossbreeding
  • 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)