Latin–English dictionary

ventulus

A light, gentle wind.

venturus

Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.

ventus

(transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

venum

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

venum liberum

The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

venum terminans

Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”).

venum ternimans

Ellipsis of discount sale (“the sale of goods at reduced prices”).

Venus

(Greek god) The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea.

venusto

(transitive) To make beautiful; to increase the beauty of.

venustus

Enchanting.

vēr

(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

Vera Crux

A city in Veracruz, Mexico.

veraciter

(manner) In a truthful manner

vērax

Honest, and always telling the truth.

Verba dierum

(book of the bible) A book of the Jewish Tanakh, divided into two Books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible.

verba scriptoris

Cloth to be made into a garment; woven fabric.

verbenaca

Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

verber

(weaponry, chiefly, historical) A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.

verbero

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

verberō clūnēs

(transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification.

verbīs augeō

To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

verbōsus

Containing or using more words than necessary; long-winded, wordy. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]

Verbum

The creative word of God; Logos.

verbum adiectum

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

verbum neutrum

(grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

verbum passivum

(grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.

verbum patiendi

(grammar) A form of a verb that is in the passive voice.

verbum temporale

(grammar) A word that indicates an action, event, or state of being.

verbum verbō

Word for word; in exactly the same words as were used originally.

vere

(modal) Actually; in fact; in reality.

verēcundia

The quality or property of being bashful

verēcundus

Shy; not liking to be noticed; socially timid.

verenda

(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts responsible for sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.

verendus

Inspiring awe; awesome.

vereor

To anticipate with fear.

Vergiliae

(astronomy) An open cluster of hot blue stars in the constellation Taurus, and the most easily visible such cluster from Earth.

Vergilius

Pūblius Vergilius Marō (70–19 BCE), Roman epic writer from the Augustan period, best known for writing the Aeneid.

vergō

(transitive) To cause to change direction.

vēridicus

Honest, and always telling the truth.

verifico

(transitive) To inspect; to examine.

vēriloquium

(countable) An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.

vērīsimilis

Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.

verisimilitudo

The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.

veritas

The state of being actual or real; realness.

vermilingua

Any of several animals of South and Central America, in the suborder Vermilingua, which are noted for eating ants and termites which they catch with their long sticky tongues, including giant anteater and lesser anteater (also known as collared anteater).

vernacularis

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

vernaculus

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

vernatio

The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

vernīlis

Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.

vernō

(transitive) To cause to blossom; to make flourish.

Vernonum

An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman, originally a Norman baronial name, derived from the town in Normandy.

vero

(modal) Actually; in fact; in reality.

Verodunum

A small city in Meuse department, Grand Est, France, the site of a ten-month long battle in World War I.

Verona

A federal city of Switzerland; the capital city of Bern canton.

Veronica

A en given name.

veror

(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

verpa

(vulgar, slang) The penis. [from the 20th c.]

verpus

(medicine, urology) Of a man, having had the foreskin of the penis excised.

verrūca

(pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

Versaliae

A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.

versātiō

(countable) An instance or occurrence.

versipellis

(mythology) A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.

versūtia

The disposition to employ one's skill in an artful manner; craftiness; guile; artifice; skill of being cunning, sly, conniving, or deceitful.

versūtus

(of objects or actions) Showing mental quickness and resourcefulness.

vertebra

(skeleton) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

vertere

(transitive) To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation.

vertex

(meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

vertō

(transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.

veru

A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.

vērum

True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.

vērus

Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact. [from 14th c.]

verūtum

A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.

vervactum

(agriculture, uncountable) Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

vēsānia

(uncountable) The state of being crazy; madness; derangement

vescor

(transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

vescus

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.

vēsīca

(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

vespa

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

Vespasianus

a Roman cognomen, notably borne by Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the Roman emperor from AD 69 to 79

vesper

The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.

vespera

The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

vesperae

(Christianity, plural only) The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service

vespertilio

(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.

vespex

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

vespillō

A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations.

vester

Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.

vestiārium

A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

vestibulum

(countable) The action of entering, or going in.

vestificus

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

vestigator

(finance) A tracker mortgage.

vestīgia

The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.

vestīgium

The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand or snow.

vestigo

(transitive) To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.

vestīmenta

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.

vestīmentum

An act or instance of putting clothes on.

vestiō

(transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.

vestior

(also, reflexive, and, figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. [from 15th c.]

vestis

(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.

vestis balnearis

A garment worn for swimming.

vestitor

A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

vestītus

Clothing.

Vesuvius

A volcanic mountain located on the Gulf of Naples in Italy.

vetare

A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

veteranus

A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.

veternus

A state of extreme torpor, sopor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]

vetitum

A prohibition.

vetitus

Not allowed; specifically disallowed.

veto

(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

vetui

A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

vetulus

Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.

vetus

old; having lived for relatively many years.

vetustus

Of an object, outdated or no longer in vogue.

vexātor

One who harasses.

vexillum

(internet slang, ACG) An indication that a certain outcome or event is going to happen, deduced not logically or causally, but as a pattern in a piece of media. Chiefly used in video games and adjacent media, especially visual novels, it is typically described as being raised or set by the plot or words of a character.

vexō

To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.

vezirus

(history) A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.

via

(countable) A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process).

via (ae) transversa

A path between two points that is faster than the commonly used paths.

Viadrus

A river in central Europe, that flows from the Czech Republic through Poland and Germany to the Baltic Sea.

viaticus

An instance of riding.

viator

One who brings messages.

viatrix

One who brings messages.

vībex

A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.

vibia

A horizontal or transverse beam or similar member that extends across or perpendicular to something.

vibrātiō

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being disrupted with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.

vibrissa

One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.

vibrō

(transitive) To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.

vīcānus

A country person.

vicāria

An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.

vicārius

An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.

vice versa

(generally after or) The same but with the two items mentioned reversed.

vīcēsimus

The ordinal form of the number twenty.

vici

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

vīcīna

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

vīcinālis

(American spelling) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.

vīcīnia

The residential area near one's home.

vicinitas

The residential area near one's home.

vicinor

(intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.

vīcīnus

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

Vicipaedīa

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

vicis

(countable) An instance or occurrence.

victima

Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

Victionarium

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

victor

Someone who conquers.

victōria

(uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.

victoriosus

Being the winner in a contest, struggle, war, etc.

victrīx

One who has won or often wins.

victuālis

Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.

victus

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

vīculus

A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.