Latin–English dictionary

rēpō

(intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

repōnō

To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

repositus

Distant or otherwise inaccessible.

reprehendō

To reprove in a formal or official way.

reprehensibilis

Deserving blame or censure; reprehensible.

reprehensiō

A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.

reprimō

(transitive) To control, limit, or halt.

reprobus

False, not authentic, not genuine.

reptile

(informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc. [from 19th c.]

reptilia

(informal) Any member of the class Reptilia that is not a bird— a cold-blooded vertebrate with dry scales that usually lays eggs, such as a lizard, snake, turtle, tortoise, crocodile, alligator, etc. [from 19th c.]

repubesco

To render young again.

repudiātiō

The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.

repudiō

(transitive) To discard or reject something.

repudiōsus

Arousing disapproval; worthy of objection; offensive.

repudium

The act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.

repuellasco

To render young again.

repuerasco

To render young again.

repugnantia

(countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.

repulsa

(idiomatic) A deliberate act of disrespect; a slight or snub.

reputātiō

The act of reconsidering or something reconsidered.

requiēs

(uncountable) Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.

requiescō

(also, figurative) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.

requīrō

To request.

res

A living creature.

res ficta

(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.

rēs odiōsa

A displeasing sight; something prominently ugly or unsightly.

res publica

One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

Res Publica Sinarum

A partly-recognized country in East Asia consisting of a main island and 167 smaller islands. Official name: Republic of China. Capital: Taipei. [from 20th c.]

rēs solī

(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground on which they are built.

res tormentaria

An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.

rescindō

(transitive) To invalidate or annul something.

resciscō

(transitive) To discover or expose (someone) as disobedient, dishonest, etc.

rescrībō

(transitive) To write again, differently; to modify; to revise.

resēminō

(transitive) To bring something to mind; to recall.

resequor

(transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

residuus

Remaining; left behind; extra; odd; in reserve.

rēsīna

A viscous water-insoluble hydrocarbon exudate of certain plants, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications.

rēsīnōsus

Of or relating to resin.

resipisco

To cause (a person or animal) to recover from a faint; to cause (a person or animal) to return to a state of consciousness.

resistō

(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.

resonus

Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.

respecto

(transitive) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.

respectus

(uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.

respicio

(transitive) To look at attentively.

respīrō

(intransitive) To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

respondeō

(transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

respōnsum

(legal) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

respublica

One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast.

rēspūblica Chrīstiāna

The Christian world; Christ's Church on Earth. [from 14th c.]

restauro

To assemble again.

restinguo

(transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).

restis

(uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

restituō

(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.

resto

(transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

restrictivus

Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.

resurrectiō

The act of arising from the dead and becoming alive again.

resuscito

To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.

retalio

(intransitive) To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.

rēte

A mesh of string, cord or rope.

retentus

Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.

reticentia

(rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

rēticulum

A net designed to keep hair up and out of the way, e.g. while cooking.

retina

A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.

retrahō

to retreat from a position

retrō

(not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.

retrōrsum

In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.

retusus

Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.

reus

(legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

Revalia

The capital city of Estonia.

Revēlātiō

(biblical) The final book of the New Testament of the Bible.

revēlō

(transitive) To uncover; to show and display that which was hidden.

revendicatio

The act of vindicating or the state of being vindicated.

revenio

(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

rēvērā

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

Reverendus

(Christianity) A title indicating respect, prefixed to the names of Christian clergy.

reverens

Marked or characterized by respect

reverenter

In a respectful manner.

reverentia

(uncountable) an attitude of consideration or high regard

revereor

To have respect for.

revertor

(intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.

revideor

To appear again.

revīvēscō

(figurative) To cause (a dead person) to live again; to resurrect.

reviviscere

To cause (something) to recover from a state of decline, neglect, oblivion, or obscurity; to make (something) active or lively again; to reanimate, to revitalize.

revocare

(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.

revolutio

Rotation: the turning of an object around an axis, one complete turn of an object during rotation.

rex

(formal) A title of respect used when referring to a king.

Rha

A river in Russia, the longest river in Europe, flowing 2,325 miles through western Russia to the Caspian Sea.

Rhagae

A city near Tehran, Iran.

Rhaganae

A city near Tehran, Iran.

Rhamses

Name of several pharaohs of 19th and 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt, 13th to 10th century BC.

Rhamsesis

Name of several pharaohs of 19th and 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt, 13th to 10th century BC.

rhapsōdia

(Ancient Greece, poetry, historical) An epic poem, or part of one, suitable for uninterrupted recitation.

rhenium

A metallic chemical element (symbol Re) with an atomic number of 75: a heavy, silvery-gray transition metal.

Rhēnus

A major river in western Europe, which flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands, before emptying into the North Sea.

rheumatologia

(medicine) The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.

rhīnocerōs

Any large herbivorous ungulate mammal native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.

rhō

The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.

Rhodos

A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.

Rhodus

A city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, and the capital of the Dodecanese.

rhombus

A ritual musical instrument and means of communicating over extended distances, consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise.

rhonchō

(ambitransitive) To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

rhyax

The molten rock ejected by a volcano from its crater or fissured sides; magma that has breached the surface of the earth.

rhythmus

A rhythm.

ribes

The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.

rīca

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

Richardus

(rare, _, compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

rīcīnum

Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material.

ricinus

A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.

Ricmondia

The capital city of Virginia.

rīdeō

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

ridere

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

ridica

A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.

rīdiculus

Funny, hilarious.

rigens

Stiff, rather than flexible.

rigēscō

(intransitive) To become hard.

rigidus

Stiff, rather than flexible.

rigor

The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape

rigorosus

Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.

rīma

A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

rīmōsus

(of skin) Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.

ringor

(intransitive) To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.

rīpa

(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

rīpāria

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

riscus

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

rīsibilis

(of a person) Easily laughing; prone to laughter

rīsus

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

rite

In a just or fair manner; rightfully.

rītuālis

Related to a rite or repeated set of actions.

ritus

A rite; a repeated set of actions, especially in religious contexts.

rīvālis

A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

rīvālitās

Any competition between two or more things or factors.

rīvulus

A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.

rīvus

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

rixa

A disorderly argument or fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

rixātor

One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

rixor

(intransitive) To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

Robertus

(rare, _, compared to given name) A French surname originating as a patronymic.

robigino

(transitive) To cause to oxidize.

rōbīginōsus

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

rōbīgō

(pathology, dated) A diseased condition of the face or skin; specifically, bleeding under the conjunctiva of the eye, a form of skin rash, or a palsy of the face due to cold.

rōborō

(transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.

robotum

(computing) A piece of software designed to perform a task (often a minor but repetitive one) automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.

robur

An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.

rōbustus

Evincing strength and health; strong; (often, especially) both large and healthy#Adjective.

rōdō

(ambitransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.

rogātiō

A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative.

Rogerius

(rare, _, compared to given name) A surname originating as a patronymic.

rogō

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

rogus

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

Roma

A major city, the capital of Italy and the Italian region of Lazio, located on the Tiber River; the ancient capital of the Roman Empire.