Latin Dictionary Entries

verb · indicate by pricking (in accounts); mark off (L+S); designate;

noun · refinement;

adjective · purified, made/become free of impurities;

noun · cleaning by purgatives; purging;

verb · clean out/away (impurities), remove dirt/offal from; rid (things of); purge;

verb · purify; refine; clear, discharge (of debt);

noun · deputation; assignment, appointment;

noun · deputy;

verb · prune/cut away/back; regard/esteem; define as/assign to/classify; post/second;

verb · beat thoroughly; strike, beat;

adjective · having meager/skinny/thin buttocks;

adverb · downwards;

verb · bewail; complain of;

adjective · having deeply deplored. bitterly complained of;

verb · scrape/rub/smooth off/away (surface of); graze; shave/cut off (hair/head);

verb · deraign; establish title; vindicate;

noun · deraignment; disarrangement; E:discharge (from monastic order);

verb · prove; establish; deraign; disarrange; E:be discharged (from monastic order);

adjective · scabby;

noun · plant; species of solanum; (also called herba Apollinaris);

adverb · perpendicularly; straight down;

noun · burglar; sneak-thief; one who secretly enters a home to steal;

adverb · in straight line; in straightforward order (of words); directly (L+S); straight;

adjective · rectangular, right-angled;

adjective · rectilinear; in a straight line;

adverb · in a regular manner; directly, straightaway (L+S);

noun · direction/act of directing; arranging in line/leveling/straightening; aiming;

noun · |sending (to place); right living; righteousness; fairness/justice; correction;

noun · rightness, correctness; fairness;

noun · directive; guideline;

adjective · directive; helpful, positive; directing (Cal); guiding;

adverb · straight, in straight line; directly, immediately, without intervening action;

noun · director;

noun · directory; the Ordo (guide for celebrating Mass and liturgy of daily hours);

adjective · that directs or sends in any direction;

noun · straight line;

noun · level, uniform horizontal surface; leveling of a surface;

adjective · straight/not curved; moving straight forward/in straight line; direct/absolute;

adjective · |vertical, upright, perpendicular; simple; forthright/undisguised; strict legal;

adjective · ||sheer/steep (L+S); level; open/straightforward (Ecc); proper, helpful/guiding;

noun · person given rights by direct procedure;

noun · neglect, disregard; abandoning;

noun · one who abandons;

noun · that which has been given up/abandoned; (legal);

adjective · abandoned, derelict (places/sites);

noun · neglect;

verb · leave behind/abandon/discard; forsake/desert; neglect; leave derelict; bequeath;

adverb · suddenly;

verb · crawl/creep/sneak down;

verb · mock/deride/laugh at/make fun of; be able to laugh, escape, get off scot free;

noun · laughing-stock; absurdity, ridiculous thing; ridiculousness; ridicule (L+S);

adjective · very/utterly laughable; ridiculous, absurd, ludicrous;

verb · soften, remove hardness;

verb · freeze, become/grow stiff/rigid (through fear); grow quite/very still;

verb · direct, steer, guide, align, point; set in order, form up; straighten, level;

verb · arrange/set in line/direction; align; set in order; form up, fall in (army);

verb · |mark/fix (boundary); demarcate; straighten (out); level; square (up);

verb · ||point; direct (word/attention); bring proceedings; end word w/inflection;

verb · |||direct (course/steps), turn/steer/guide; propel/direct (missiles/blows);

verb · seize/grab/snatch/take away; tear/pull off/down; remove (violently);

noun · mockery, scorn, derision;

noun · scoffer, mocker; cynic; satirical person;

adjective · derisory, characterized by mockery; ridiculous, serving for laughter (L+S);

adjective · absurd, laughable; scorned (L+S);

noun · mockery; scorn, derision;

noun · heading/turning off/away, diversion (into another channel); derivation (words);

noun · derivative, word formed from another word; derivation (L+S);

adjective · derivative; (grammar);

verb · draw/lead off (river/fluid), divert/turn aside; derive/draw on; form derivative;

verb · gnaw/nibble away;

noun · derogation, partial abrogation of a law;

noun · detractor, depreciator;

adjective · modifying; belonging to a derogation/partial repeal of a law (L+S);

verb · ask urgently;

verb · subtract/remove/diminish/detract; disparage; repeal/set aside/modify (law);

adjective · gnawed away; nibbled (L+S);

verb · plane off, shave; cheat, fleece; deceive;

verb · fall down/off; cause to fall/collapse; throw/cast down (L+S); detract/take away;

verb · seize/grab/snatch/take away; tear/pull off/down; remove (violently);

noun · precipices (pl.);

adjective · steep, precipitous; craggy; broken;

numeral · two thirds; [bes alter => one and two thirds];

verb · dedicate as a sacrificial victim;

verb · rage, rave furiously; work off/vent one's rage;

verb · rage, rave furiously; work off/vent one's rage;

verb · dance through; perform w/dance; represent in dance (L+S); dance the part of;

noun · descendant; (pl.) posterity, descendants;

verb · descend, climb/march/come/go/flow/run/hang down; dismount; penetrate/sink;

verb · |stoop; demean; drop/become lower (pitch); be reduced; trace descent/come down;

noun · descent, action of going down; sailing down; (sunken) bath;

adjective · descent, descending, coming down;

noun · decent, climbing/getting down; action/means/way of descent; lying down (rude);

verb · cut/slit down; divide (L+S), divide into two parties;

verb · desert/defect/revolt; deviate/abandon standard/principle; degenerate; fall away;

verb · scrape, graze; scrape/rasp/file off/away;

verb · describe/draw, mark/trace out; copy/transcribe/write; establish (law/right)

adverb · exactly; in a clearly defined manner; distinctly, precisely (L+S);

noun · description/descriptive story; drawing of diagram/plan; indictment; transcript;

noun · delineation, short description; short passage of description (in speech/etc.);

adjective · descriptive, containing an exact description;