Questions tagged [vocabulary]
This tag is for questions concerning the meaning and usage of individual words or a few words in conjunction with each other.
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Syntax of *heptaplomeres*
The title of a book by 16th century writer Joannes Bodinus, Colloquium heptaplomeres de rerum sublimium arcanis abditis, which Wikipedia translates as "Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of ...
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how to say the adjectival "one-time" / "non-recurrent" in Latin
say to say "one-time expense" i.e., not-regular.
I hoped we could find a conversion of the adverb semel into an adjective.
for recurrent I thought frequens could work as well as assiduus. ...
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What is the difference between gradus and passus as a step or pace?
Gradus and passus both have multiple meanings. Passus, as in its meaning related to feet, is also described as a unit of measurement, of five Roman feet. Gradus also has distinct meanings, including ...
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How many steps in mille passus?
One definition given by Wiktionary for passus is "step". Another is "pace", which I understand to be two steps: the distance from where a single foot touches the ground at the ...
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How were those shrine niches originally called?
A recent excavation in Pompeii revealed a rather rare blue (caeruleum?) shrine. In this there are 3 niches of red color. How those are called in Latin?
(Image taken from here - pompeiisites.org)
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What are the meaning and function of -ne in superne and pone?
What are the meaning and function of -ne in superne and pone? Oxford Latin Dictionary seems to say that the senses of -ne is related to making questions, and it is hard for me to relate its senses ...
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What is the full word of clitic -ce?
Oxford Latin Dictionary says
-ce particle. Deictic particle, usu. enclitic (cf, Osc. iuc, nom. sg, f. = ea); added to demonstratives and in classical L,
reduced to -c (hic, iliic; hinc, ...
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Clean the house
A friend of mine put a reminder to clean his house before going out, in the inner-facing side of the front door. As a humorous note, he wrote it in Latin, attached to a well-known quote:
Memento mori....
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Translate phrase from Stephen King novel
In Stephen King's novel Song of Susannah, aka Dark Tower book 6, he has the phrase:
In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick... but their hands never move.
I am translating this to Latin but find some ...
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ūro vs adūro in Ritchie's Fabulae faciles (Hercules, §22)
I read in Ritchie's Fabulae faciles ([Hercules, §22], macrons are mine):
(Hercules is about to attack the hydra)
Mox mōnstrum inuēnit, et quamquam rēs erat magnī perīculī, collum ēius
sinistrā ...
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Examples where a derived noun and a passive form in '-or' are unrelated
It recently occurred to me that rigor is both a noun ("stiffness") and a verb form ("I am moistened").
Are there other similar examples of pairs in Latin with a noun and a passive ...
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Having a hard time finding classical examples of eo (the verb)
I am having a hard time finding examples of the word eo (to go). For example, I searched Perseus for both it and isse in multiple plays of Plautus like Pseudolus, Menaechmi, Miles Gloriosus, and a lot ...
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Can facio be used to express visiting someone?
In Duolingo's Latin course, they have examples like the following:
Cliens patronum facit.
The answer they expect you to choose is, "the client visits the patron". Can facio be used to mean ...
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Differences between φρονεω and νοεω
What is the difference between the meaning of these two words? How is it different when I φρονεω vs when I νοεω?
So far as I understand it, νοεω is from the νους or καρδια, and φρονεω is from the φρην....
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Why is computatorium considered to be a better word than computatrum? (For the English word "computer")
I was watching a Luke Ranieri video in which he mentioned that computatrum isn't a very good word for computer, and that computatorium is much better, and that people should stop using computatrum. ...
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