Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 70.aes on page 70
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aes bronze
aes is a Latin Noun that primarily means bronze.
Definitions for aes
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
bronze
English derivatives:
era
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Copper, bronze, or brass. (b) ~s album (candidum), light-coloured bronze, brass; ~s Corinthium, a special type of bronze produced at Corinth and widely regarded as an alloy of gold, silver, and copper; ~s Cyprium, the type of copper found in Cyprus; ~s combustum (ustum), calcined copper (as used in medicine). (c) flos (squama) ~ris, red or impure cuprous oxide; scoria ~ris, copper dross or slag.
- 2
+(sg.) Copper or bronze as a metal of currency, copper or bronze money; ~s graue, heavy copper or bronze coinage (i.e. asses weighing a full pound each(. (b) a copper or bronze coin, esp. an as. (c) ~s et libra (libra et ~s), a symbolical copper coin and balance used in transactions which concerned transference of property, enslaving of debtors, emancipation of slaves, etc.
- 3
Money in general, cash (not always clearly distinguishable from sense 2); (monetary) value; (monetary) standard. (b) (pl.) individual sums of money, items in an account. (c) tribuni ~ris = tribuni aerarii.
Sentences with aes
Latin to English
Viator, audi. Si libet, intus veni: tabula est aes quae te cuncta perdocet.Compare Traveler, listen. Come inside if you like: there’s a bronze tablet which gives you all the information.
Exegi monumentum aere perennius. (Horace, Odes III.30.1)Compare I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.
Declension table for aes
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | aes | aera |
| Gen. | aeris | aerum |
| Dat. | aerī | aeribus |
| Acc. | aes | aera |
| Abl. | aere | aeribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 286.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 70.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 125.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "aes, aeris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 30, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/aes-aeris.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 286.aes, aeris on page 286
