Latin–English dictionary

factus

A relatively rare or difficult accomplishment.

factus periculosus

A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

facultās

(countable) A skill or competence in doing; mental power; talent; aptitude. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

facultātēs

(uncountable) Financial resources; wealth. [circa 1600]

facultativus

Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.

fācundia

The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.

fācundus

Fluently persuasive and articulate.

fāda

(mythological creature) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.

faecula

A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.

faenerātor

A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.

faenerātrīx

A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.

faenum

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.

faenus

(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]

faex

The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.

fāgus

A tree of the genus Fagus having a smooth, light grey trunk, oval, pointed leaves, and many branches.

falcicula

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

falcō

Any bird of the genus Falco, all of which are birds of prey.

fallax

Deceptive, two-faced.

fallō

To have an incorrect belief, to be mistaken about one's judgment or statement concerning something. (This entry is a translation hub.)

fallō comprehendere

(transitive) To fail to understand.

fallor

(transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.

falsārius

A person who counterfeits.

falsificatio

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.

falsitās

(countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.

falsus

Containing an error; inaccurate.

falx

(agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

fāma

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of, especially for something positive.

familia

A traditional social group of families in the Scottish Highlands having a common hereditary chieftain.

fāmōsus

Having fame; famous or noted.

famula

A female servant; a maid.

famulus

One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.

fanum

An area set aside for protection.

fanus

The act of gaining; acquisition.

farcīmen

A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing; a length of this food.

farciō

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter.

farīna

A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.

fārius

Used to make adjectives meaning times.

farrāgō

A collection containing a confused variety of miscellaneous things.

fartilis

Full or packed (with some material or substance).

fartis

Any of many food items used to stuff another.

fartum

The contents of a pie, etc.

fartus

With a stomach stuffed full of food.

fascia

A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.

fasciātus

Marked with bands of colour.

fasciculus

(cards) A pack or set of playing cards.

fascinans

Enchanting.

fascinare

(transitive) To delight and fill with wonder.

fascinator

A male magic-user; a male witch; a wizard.

fascinatoria

A female sorcerer, especially one who is elegant; compare witch.

fascinātōrius

Someone, usually male, who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.

fascinatrix

A female sorcerer, especially one who is elegant; compare witch.

fascino

(transitive) To cast a spell upon.

fascinum

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula. [from 16th c.]

fascis

(countable) A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.

fascismus

Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. [1922]

fāstī

(astronomy, navigation) A book or table listing nautical, astronomical, astrological or other events for the year; sometimes, but not essentially, containing historical and statistical information.

fastīdior

To cause an intense dislike for something.

fastidiosus

Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.

fastīdium

Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

fastīgium

(architectural element) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

fastōsus

Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.

fastus

(uncountable) The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain.

fāta

(mythological creature) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.

fātālis

Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain.

fateor

(transitive) To admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in.

fāticanus

Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet.

fatidica

Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.

fatidicus

Someone who speaks by divine inspiration.

fatīgāre

(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.

fatīgātiō

A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.

fatīgō

(transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

fatiscō

(intransitive) To form cracks.

fatuitas

Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.

fatum

(countable) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

fātus

The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.

fatuus

Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.

faustus

Of good omen; indicating future success.

fautor

One who admires.

fautrix

One who admires.

faveō

(transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

favilla

Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.

favonius

Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.

favōrābilis

Liked by many people; generally pleasing, widely admired. [from 17th c.]

favus

(uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.

febriculentus

Having a fever, an elevated body temperature.

febriculosus

Feverish; feeling a high fever.

febris

An elevated body temperature, as present in many illnesses; fever.

Februarius

The short month following January and preceding March in the Roman, Julian, and Gregorian calendars, used in all three calendars for intercalation or addition of leap days.

februum

A religious act or rite in which a defiled person is made clean or free from sin.

fēcundō

To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.

fēcundus

(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.

fel

A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

feles

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

Felicitas

A en given name.

feliciter

It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.

fēlīnus

Of or pertaining to cats.

felio

(intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.

felis

A carnivorous, four-legged, generally furry domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet. [from 8th c.]

felix

Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.

fēllō

(transitive, intransitive) To stimulate the penis or scrotum using the mouth.

femellarius

A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.

fēmina

One of the female (feminine) sex or gender.

femina marina

A mythological creature with a woman's head and upper body, and a tail of a fish.

fēmineus

Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]

femininus

Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]

feminismus

A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

femorālis

Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh.

femur

(anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.

fenestra

A body of water let into a coast, such as a bay, cove, fjord or estuary.

fenestrae

(graphical user interface) A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying output and allowing input, often for a single task in a multitasking system.

Fennia

A Nordic country having borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia in Europe. Official name: Republic of Finland.

fennicus

Of or pertaining to Finland or the Finns; Finlandic, Finlandish.

fēnuculum

A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor.

fenum

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.

fera

(often, _, collective) All non-human animals seen as a group.

ferax

Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

ferculum

(culinary) A stage of a meal.

Ferdinandus

A en given name, best known for a 13th century king of Spain, but seldom popular in English.

ferdingus

(historical) An English unit of land area, originally 1⁄4 of a yardland but later 12+1⁄2 or 20 acres.

ferē

Very close to, but not quite.

feretrum

(countable, obsolete) A bed, especially a pile of straw with blankets &c. used as a bed.

feria

A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.

fēria quārta

The fourth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the third day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Tuesday and precedes Thursday.

fēria quinta

The fifth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fourth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Wednesday and precedes Friday.

fēria secunda

The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

fēria sexta

The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.

fēria tertia

The third day of the week in many religious traditions, and the second day of the week in systems that use the ISO 8601 norm; it follows Monday and precedes Wednesday.

fēriae

A day declared free from work by the state or government.

ferīna

The meat of a deer, typically one that had lived in its own natural habitat.

feriō

(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

feritas

The state or quality of being wild.

ferlingus

(historical) An English unit of land area, originally 1⁄4 of a yardland but later 12+1⁄2 or 20 acres.

fermē

As a rule; usually; typically; in most cases.

fermentō

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

fermentum

Something, such as a yeast or barm, that causes fermentation.

ferō

(transitive) To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.

ferōciō

To move about wildly or violently.

ferōcitās

The condition of being ferocious.

ferōciter

In a ferocious manner, particularly violent and aggressive.

ferox

Marked by extreme and violent energy.

ferramenta

(chiefly, UK) Eating or serving utensils such as knives, forks, and spoons.

ferrāmentum

Any physical device meant to ease or do a task.

ferrārius

A person who forges iron.

ferreus

Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron. (Said mainly of iron group elements, in any sense of that term.)

ferri

(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.

ferriterium

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

ferrivia

(chiefly, UK, Ireland, and, Commonwealth) A transport system using rails used to move passengers or goods.

ferro levigare

(transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.

ferrūgineus

Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. [from 14th c.]

ferrūgō

The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).