English search results for: straining

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. aim
  2. spasm
  3. straining, concentration
  4. stretch, extension
  5. tautness, tension
  • 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: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. aim
  2. spasm
  3. straining, concentration
  4. stretch, extension
  5. tautness, tension
  • 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

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. affectation, straining for
  2. claiming
  3. seeking/striving for, aspiration to
  • 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

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. affectation, straining for
  2. claiming
  3. seeking/striving for, aspiration to
  • 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)
#5

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. strainer, filter, sieve
  2. vessel for straining, colander (L+S)
  3. wicker fish net
  • 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)
#6

noun

  • declension: 4th declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. straining
  2. the efforts of childbirth (pl.), travail
  • 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

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. a straining (from the Greek)
  2. constipation
  • 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
#8

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. action of straining after
  2. feint to attract stroke (fencing)
  3. legacy-hunting
  • 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)
#9

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. inclination/futile straining to void bowels/bladder
  2. straining/effort/tenesmus
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: Biological, Medical, Body Parts
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#10

adjective

Definitions:

  1. (feminine adjective)
  2. straining after, striving to obtain
  • 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: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)