Latin search results for: hyper

#1

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. hyperbole (math.)
  • Age: Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Calepinus Novus, “Modern Latin”, by Guy Licoppe (Cal)
#2

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#3

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. transposition of words
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Literature, Schools
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Charles Beard, “Cassell’s Latin Dictionary”, 1892 (CAS)
#4

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. highest tetrachord in 2-octave scale
  2. notes/strings in highest pitch tetrachord
  • Age: Latin not in use in Classical times (6-10th centuries) Christian
  • Area: Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Souter, “A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.”, Oxford 1949
#5

noun

  • declension: undeclined

Definitions:

  1. highest tetrachord in 2-octave scale
  2. notes/strings in highest pitch tetrachord
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Drama, Music, Theater, Art, Painting, Sculpture
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#6

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. enlargement of part/organ, excessive growth/development
  2. hypertrophy
  • Age: Latin post 15th - Scholarly/Scientific (16th-18th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Calepinus Novus, “Modern Latin”, by Guy Licoppe (Cal)
#7

noun

  • declension: 2nd declension
  • gender: masculine

Definitions:

  1. faulty verse
  2. verse ending in syllable
  3. verse with one extra foot
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: Poetic
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Lewis & Short, “A Latin Dictionary”, 1879 (Lewis & Short)
#8

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. superior veneration
  2. veneration due Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: Ecclesiastic, Biblical, Religious
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)
#9

adverb

Definitions:

  1. excessively
  2. hyperbolically
  3. with exaggeration
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • 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)
#10

adjective

Definitions:

  1. excessive, overstrained, hyperbolical/hyperbolic
  2. insolent (Latham)
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • 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)
#11

adjective

Definitions:

  1. extreme
  • Age: Late, post-classical (3rd-5th centuries)
  • 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)
#12

adjective

Definitions:

  1. over/exceeding a meter
  • Age: Coined recently, words for new things (19th-21st centuries)
  • Area: Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, Units/Measures
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Having only single citation in Oxford Latin Dictionary or Lewis + Short
  • Source: L.F. Stelten, “Dictionary of Eccles. Latin”, 1995 (Ecc)