Latin–English dictionary

prussicus

Of, from, or pertaining to Prussia.

Prutenia

(historical) A former duchy, kingdom and (after German unification in 1871) a province of Germany, existing in various forms from 1525 to 1947 in parts of modern Germany, Poland and Russia; it originated from the historical region of Prussia and expanded over time through conquest.

psalterium

(music, colloquial) Any musical instrument.

pseudonymum

A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.

pseudovestatus

(of clothing) Torn, ragged or tattered.

psoriasis

(disease) A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.

psychiatrista

A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

psychiatristus

A medical doctor specializing in psychiatry.

psychologa

An expert in the field of psychology.

psychologus

An expert in the field of psychology.

psychopathia

A personality disorder characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits masked by superficial charm and the outward presence of apparent normality. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.

ptocheum

A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged.

ptochotropheum

A charitable institution where poor or homeless people are lodged.

Ptolemaeus

A en given name of Greek origin, borne by historical persons in ancient Egypt.

Ptolemāis

A port city in northern Israel, holiest city in the Baháʼí Faith.

puber

Fully grown.

pūbertās

The age at which a person is first capable of sexual reproduction.

pubēs

Fully grown.

publicanus

(Ancient Rome, historical) A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.

pūblicātiō

The act or process of confiscating.

publicator

A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books.

pūblicē

In view of other people, who may be strangers.

pūblicō

(transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.

publicum

(countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.

pudefactus

(chiefly, of someone in trouble and undergoing punishment for doing something wrong) Feeling shame or guilt.

pudenda

(euphemistic) Those parts of the human body commonly expected to be covered by clothing when in public; especially, the pubic area.

pudens

Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.

pudibundus

Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful

pudīcitia

The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.

pudīcus

Sexually pure, abstaining from immoral or unlawful sexual intercourse.

pudor

(specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.

puella

A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).

puella marina

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

puella masculina

A girl who behaves in a typically boyish manner.

puellāris

Like (that of) a girl; feminine.

puer

A male child. [from 15th c.]

puerārius

Like a stereotypical boy in appearance or demeanor.

pueritia

(mostly, uncountable) The state of being a child.

puerperium

The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.

pugil

A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.

pugilātiō

(sports) A sport where two opponents punch each other with gloved fists to head and torso; the object being to score more points by the end of the match or by knockout, or technical knockout.

pugillārēs

(computing, sometimes, attributive) A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc.

pugillum

The amount that can be held in a closed fist.

pūgiō

(weapons) A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.

pugna

(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.

pugnare

(intransitive) To fight (with); to struggle for victory (against).

pugnator

A person who fights; a combatant.

pugnātrix

A person who fights; a combatant.

pugnāx

Given to fighting; disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.

pugnō

(intransitive) To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc.

pugnus

A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.

pulcher

Possessing beauty, impressing the eye; attractive. [from 1520s]

pulchre

In a beautiful manner.

pulchritūdō

(uncountable) The state of being attractive or engaging.

pulchrum

Admired, distinguished, respected, or well-known. [from mid 16th c.]

pūlegium

Mentha pulegium, a plant of the mint family, formerly much used in various medicinal treatments and as a flea repellent.

pūlex

A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.

pullus

A young bird.

pulmentum

Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.

pulmo

An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.

pulmōnis calamus

The trachea.

puls

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

pulso

(transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.

pulsus

A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.

pulvīnar

(North America, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.

pulvīnus

A garden plot.

pulvis

(countable, obsolete) A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.

pūmex

A light, porous type of pyroclastic igneous rock, formed during explosive volcanic eruptions when liquid lava is ejected into water or air as a froth containing masses of gas bubbles, which are frozen into the rock as the lava solidifies.

pumilio

(now, sometimes, _, offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.

pūmilus

(especially in, _, botany) Miniature.

punctum

(historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.

punctum temporis

Occurring immediately; immediate; present.

pūnctūra

A hole, cut, or tear created by a sharp object.

pungo

(transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.

punica malus

The shrub or small tree that bears the fruit.

puniceus

A dark red or orange-red colour, like that of the pulp or skin of a pomegranate fruit.

pūniō

(transitive) To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.

pūnītiō

A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.

pūnitor

One who punishes.

pūpa

A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

pūpilla

(anatomy) The hole in the middle of the iris of the eye, through which light passes to be focused on the retina.

pūpillus

A person under guardianship.

puppis

(nautical) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

purgamentum

Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.

purgativus

(capable of) purging

purgatorium

(Christianity) An intermediate state after death in which some of those ultimately destined for Heaven must first undergo purification.

purgo

(transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

purifico

(transitive) To cleanse, or rid of impurities.

pūritās

The quality or condition of being complete; pure

pūrus

Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

pūs

(medicine, pathology) A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection.

Pusanum

A metropolitan city of South Korea. It is the second largest city and the largest port city in Korea. It is also well known for its beaches and port.

pusillus

Of inferior significance, size, or strength; ineffective, small, weak. [from 16th c.]

pustula

A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.

pustulatum

(collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.

putatio

(uncountable) The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.

puter

Having undergone decay, rotted.

puteus

Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.

putō

(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

pūtor

The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.

putrefaciō

(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

pūtrescō

(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.

pyla

A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.

pylae

A narrow passage or way (originally (military) , one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.

pyra

A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.

Pȳrēnaeī

The mountain range separating Spain from France, inhabited by Basques in the west, Occitans in the centre-north, Aragonese in the centre-south, and Catalans in the east.

pyrobolus

An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.

pyrōpus

(uncountable) A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.

pyrōsis

(medicine) A burning sensation in the chest due to reflux of stomach contents in the esophagus.

pyrotechnicus

Of or relating to the use of fire in chemistry or metallurgy.

pyrrhichius

(prosody) Of or characterized by pyrrhics (metrical feet with two short syllables).

Pythagoras

Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC), an Ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher.

Pȳthōn

(Greek mythology) The earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.

pythonissa

One who attempts to predict the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.

pyxidicula

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

pyxis

A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.

qua

Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).

quadra

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.

quadragēna

(historical) The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.

quādrāgēsima

(Christianity) A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter, traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain foods and pleasures.

quadraginta

The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

quadrans

(historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard. [from 14th c.]

quadrator

Somebody who cuts, carves or dresses stone.

quadrātum

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

quadrātus

Shaped like a square (the polygon).

quadrīgae

A two-wheeled horse-drawn cart, used in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age warfare.

quadripartiō

(transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

quadrum

(printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

quadruplex

Four times as great; quadruple.

quadruplicō

(transitive) To multiply by four.

quadruplus

Four times as great; quadruple.

quadrus

Shaped like a square (the polygon).

quae

(fused relative, archaic, or, marginal) Whoever, he who, they who.

quaedam

One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.

quaerō

(transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

quaesō

(often, with yes) Used as an affirmative to an offer.

quaestio

(education) A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.

quaestus

(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.

qualis

(interrogative) What, of those mentioned or implied.

quālitās

(uncountable) Level of excellence.

qualiter

In any manner in which; in whatever way; however.

qualus

A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.

quam

(formal, somewhat, dated) For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)

quam celerrime

As soon as is possible; at one's earliest convenience; at the earliest possible time.

quam primum

As soon as is possible; at one's earliest convenience; at the earliest possible time.

quamdiū

(idiomatic) For the entire duration that; while; since.

quamquam

Though, even though, in spite of or despite the fact that: introducing a clause that expresses a concession.

quando

(interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.

quandōcumque

At any time that.

quandōque

At any time that.