Latin search results for: atra

#1

adjective

Definitions:

  1. deadly, terrible, grisly (esp. connected with underworld)
  2. poisonous
  3. spiteful
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#2

adjective

Definitions:

  1. black, dark
  2. dark-colored (hair/skin)
  3. gloomy/murky
  4. sordid/squalid
  5. unlucky
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Very frequent, in all Elementry Latin books, top 1000+ words
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

adjective

Definitions:

  1. clothed in black, in/wearing mourning
  2. darkened, blackened, dingy
  • 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)
#4

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. blacking, black pigment/ink
  2. writing-ink
  3. [~ sepiae => cuttle-fish ink]
  • 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)
#5

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: neuter

Definitions:

  1. inkpot, inkwell
  2. inkstand
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#6

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. plant of the genus Carthamus, spindle-thistle (used as antidote to poisons)
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Agriculture, Flora, Fauna, Land, Equipment, Rural
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)