Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 82.ager on page 82
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ager field
ager is a Latin Noun that primarily means field.
Definitions for ager
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
field, farm
English derivatives:
agrarian agriculture agronomy
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A piece of land, esp. as marked off by political or geographical boundaries, territory, country, region; land on the produce of which tithes are paid; (meton.) the inhabitants of a territory. (b) (considered quantitatively). (c) (considered qualitatively; cf. sense 5) terrain.
- 2
A piece of land privately owned, an estate or farm; also a park. (b) (spec.) the land pertaining to a country estate, as distinct from the house.
- 3
A piece of land privately owned, an estate or farm; also a park. (b) (spec.) the land pertaining to a country estate, as distinct from the house.
Sentences with ager
Latin to English
Gāium, fīlium meum, in agrō videō.Compare I see Gaius, my son, in the field.
Multī ex agrīs in urbem venient.Compare Many will come from the country into the city.
Virōs in agrō videō.Compare I see men in the field.
Ager bene cultus est ūber ūsū et ōrnātus speciē.Compare A field well cultivated is rich in usefulness and beautiful in appearance.
Asia omnibus terrīs antecellit ūbertāte agrōrum et varietāte frūctuum et multitūdine eārum quae exportantur.Compare Asia excels all lands in richness of fields and variety of fruits and large number of those things which are exported.
Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes. (De Re Rustic, III, 1)Compare Divine nature gave us the country, human art built our cities.
Qui Diomedeis metuendus saetiger agris Aetola cecidit cuspide, talis erat.Compare The terror in the land of Diomedes, the bristly beast that fell beneath an Aetolian spear, was such as this.
Contineo unus ex pars flumen Rhenus, latus atque altus, qui ager Helvetius a Germani divido.Compare They are enclosed on one side by the River Rhine, very broad and very deep, which divides the Helvetian territory from the Germans.
Declension table for ager
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | ager | agrī |
| Gen. | agrī | agrōrum |
| Dat. | agrō | agrīs |
| Acc. | agrum | agrōs |
| Abl. | agrō | agrīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 20.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 82.
- 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): 121.
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, 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.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "ager, agrī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 29, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/ager-agri.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 20.ager, agrī on page 20
