candidas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →candida, candidae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Arts
games/play presented by a candidate for office;
acc. pl. - Entry →candido, candidare, candidavi, candidatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Religion
make glittering/bright; make white;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →candidus, candida -um, candidior -or -us, candidissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bright, clear, transparent; clean/spotless; lucid; candid; kind; innocent, pure;; radiant, unclouded; (dressed in) white; of light color; fair skinned, pale;
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
- T
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mammicula opprimit aut, si lubet, corpora conduplicantur, manu candida cantharum dulciferum propinat amicissima amico: ibi iam neque esse..." - T
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...cedas die, ut mortalis inlucescat luce clara et candida. atque quanto, nox, fuisti longior hac proxuma, tanto brevior..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...pendent limine serta, infulaque in geminos discurrit candida postes, 355legitimaeque faces, gradibusque adclinis eburnis stat torus et picto..." - A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...esset reus, neque barbam desisse radi neque non candida veste uti neque fuisse cultu solito reorum..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...incuriose et abiecte verbum positum in his versibus: candida succinctam latrantibus inguina monstris Dulichias vexasse rates et gurgite..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...insignem conscendere currum * * * tu mihi supremae praescripta ad candida callis currenti spatium praemonstra, callida musa Calliope, requies hominum..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...aperto lumine rursum omnia convisunt clara loca candida luce, nunc redeo ad mundi novitatem et mollia terrae arva..." - T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...civitate caelitum. ita sum, ut videtis, splendens stella candida, signum quod semper tempore exoritur suo hic atque..."
