Latin search results for: Creta

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. chalk
  2. clay/clayey soil
  3. paint/whitening
  4. white goal line
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Frequent, top 2000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. Crete, island of Crete
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. arisen/sprung/descended from
  2. born of
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 10,000 words
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#4

adjective

Definitions:

  1. chalked, marked with chalk
  2. in white
  3. powdered (woman)
  4. whitened with pipe-clay
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#5

adjective

Definitions:

  1. dealing in chalk or pipe-clay
  2. of/pertaining to chalk/Cretan earth (L+S)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. shop for chalk/Cretan earth
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#7

adjective

Definitions:

  1. chalk-like, creataceous (L+S)
  2. resembling chalk or pipe-clay
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)