English search results for: tortoise

#1

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. armored movable shed
  2. testudo
  3. tortoise
  4. troops locking shields overhead
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. lyre, harp
  2. tortoise
  3. tortoise shell (from which lyres were made)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#3

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. lyre, harp
  2. tortoise
  3. tortoise shell (from which lyres were made)
  • 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: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. constellation Lyra
  2. lyre/harp (made originally from a tortoise shell)
  3. tortoise
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. kind of toad (L+S)
  2. land tortoise
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. shell of a horned tortoise
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#7

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. (like a tortoise 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)
#8

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. shell of horned tortoise
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)