Latin–English dictionary

āfricānus

Of or pertaining to Africa.

āfricus

Of or pertaining to Africa.

agaga

One who negotiates between parties seeking mutual agreement.

Agar

(biblical character) The Egyptian concubine of Abraham, mother of Ishmael.

agāsō

A person who looks after horses.

Agatha

A en given name.

age

Pay attention.

agenus

Without an associated gender (in any sense); not having a particular gender.

ager

(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

agger

(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

aggravō

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness. [from 16th c.]

aggravor

(intransitive) To become worse.

aggredior

(transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.

aggresiō cum insidiā

An attack launched from a concealed position.

aggressiō

An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.

aggressor

The person or country that first attacks or makes an aggression; that begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

agilis

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move.

agilitās

(uncountable) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; quickness of motion

agite

Pay attention.

agmen

(collective) A collective term for doves or swallows.

agna

(countable) The fruiting body of a grain plant.

agnellus

A young sheep.

Agnes

A en given name.

agnina

(uncountable) The flesh of a lamb or sheep used as food.

agnitio

Familiarity or understanding of a particular skill, branch of learning etc. [from 14th c.]

agnomen

A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.

agnomentum

A familiar, invented name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing, often based on some noteworthy characteristic.

agnoscō

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

agnosticismus

The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.

agnus

A young sheep.

ago

(obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.

ago fieri

(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.

agolum

A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.

agoraphobia

The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

agrārius

Of, or relating to, the ownership, tenure and cultivation of land.

agrestis

From or in the countryside, connected with it, or typical of it.

agricola

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

agricolor

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; to farm out.

agricultūra

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock.

agrimensor

A person occupied with surveying: the process of determining positions on the earth's surface.

agripeta

Someone who settles in a new location, especially one who takes up residence in a previously uninhabited place; a colonist.

Agrippa

A Latin cognomen; borne by important figures of the classical era such as Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and several kings of Judea, mentioned in the bible.

aha

An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.

Aiāx

(Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.

aio

(intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

aiutum

A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance.

āla

The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

Alabama

A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.

alabaster

A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

alabrum

A kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound.

alacer

Brisk; lively.

alacritās

Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

alacriter

In an eager manner.

Alānī

(historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

Alanus

A en given name.

alapa

(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.

alapam dō

(transitive) To give a slap to.

Alarīcus

A historic king of the Visigoths.

ālātus

Having wings.

alauda

Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.

Alba

A major river in central Europe that passes through the Czech Republic and Germany before flowing into the North Sea.

Alba Bulgarica

The capital city of Serbia; the former capital of Yugoslavia; the former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.

Alba Graeca

The capital city of Serbia; the former capital of Yugoslavia; the former capital of Serbia and Montenegro.

albāmentum

The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

Albania

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana. [from ca. 1503]

albanicus

Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. [from 1593]

Albanus

A en given name.

albarium

A plaster that is used to coat interior or exterior walls, or used for mouldings.

Albarussia

A country in Eastern Europe. Official name: Republic of Belarus. Capital and largest city: Minsk.

alberga

(often, military) A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.

Alberta

A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.

Albertus

A en given name.

Albia

A town and commune, the prefecture of Tarn department, Occitania, in southern France.

albica

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

albicō

(ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

Albiga

A town and commune, the prefecture of Tarn department, Occitania, in southern France.

Albīnus

A en given name.

Albion

(historical) The territory of the Angles and (later) Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of the Kingdom of England, or the territory of the English people at any given time, in either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom.

Albis

A major river in central Europe that passes through the Czech Republic and Germany before flowing into the North Sea.

albitūdō

(statistics, of a stochastic process) The quality of being white noise.

albō

(ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

albūmen

The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

alburnus

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

albus

The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.

alcēs

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

alchemia

(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

alchemista

One who practices alchemy.

alchiebābat

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

alchimia

(uncountable) The premodern and early modern study of physical changes, particularly in Europe, Arabia, and China; and chiefly in pursuit of an elixir of immortality, a universal panacea, and/or a philosopher's stone able to transmute base metals into gold, eventually developing into chemistry.

alcohol

(organic compound, countable) Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol) containing a hydroxyl functional group (-OH).

ālea

An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.

āleātor

One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.

āleātōrium

A public building or room for gambling.

aleatorius

Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

Alemānnia

A country in Central Europe, formed in 1949 as West Germany, with its provisional capital Bonn until 1990, when it incorporated East Germany. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany. Capital and largest city: Berlin.

āleō

One who plays at a game of chance, who gambles.

alere

(transitive) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.

alesco

(transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

Alexander

A en given name, most famously held by Alexander the Great.

Alexandra

A en given name.

alexilum

A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.

Alexius

A en given name.

alexivrochium

A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.

alfa

(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.

alfinus

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.

Alfredus

A en given name.

alfus

(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.

alga

(biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

algeo

Indicates that the speaker feels cold.

Algeria

A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers. [from 1575]

Algerium

A country in North Africa. Official name: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Capital and largest city: Algiers. [from 1575]

algidus

(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

algor

(uncountable) A condition of low temperature.

algus

(uncountable) A condition of low temperature.

Alicia

A en given name popular in England since the Middle Ages.

alicuius adventu festum agere

To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

alicuius adventu festum ago

To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

aliēnātiō

(Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.

aliēnō

To cause one to feel unable to relate.

aliēnus

Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

ālifer

Having wings.

aliī

Other people.

alii alios

(reciprocal pronoun) To one another; one to the other; signifies that a verb applies to two or more entities both as subjects and as direct objects:

alimentum

(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.

alimonia

(legal, sometimes, pejorative) A court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.

alioqui

(conjunctive) Also; in addition.

aliquā

In one way or another; in a way not yet known or explained; by some means

aliquando

At the end or conclusion; ultimately.

aliquantum

To a limited extent or degree; not completely.

aliquem taedet aliquid

Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.

aliqui

(stressed) A nonzero, unspecified proportion of (a bounded set of countable things): at least two.

aliquid

Some unspecified person.

aliquis

Some unspecified person.

aliquot

A small number of (a set of countable items); more than one but not very many; especially, more than two but not very many (explained in usage note at several).

aliter

In a bad manner.

alius

(postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

Allah

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

allec

Those fish and any other fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes.

allectō

(transitive) To entice; to attract.

allegiantia

Loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.

allelūia

A liturgical form of hallelujah.

alliciō

(transitive) To pull toward without touching.

alligator

Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.

alligō

To apply a bandage to something.

alliteratio

The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.

allium

A plant, Allium sativum, related to the onion, having a pungent bulb much used in cooking.

alloquium

An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this. [from 17th c.]

alloquor

(obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

alluo

(intransitive) To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.

alluviō

The spillage resultant from overflowing.