Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 217.aureus on page 217
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aureus golden
aureus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means golden.
Definitions for aureus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
golden
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A gold coin, (at Rome, equivalent to 25 silver denarii), 'sovereign'.
Adjective
- 1
Made of gold, golden. (b) ~us nummus, a gold piece, 'sovereign'. (c) (mythol. of the Golden Fleece).
- 2
Covered with gold, gilded. (b) adorned with gold; (of a sacrificial victim) with gilded horns.
- 3
Containing gold, gold-bearing.
- 4
Shining like gold, golden. (b) gold-coloured, bright yellow.
- 5
Of great excellence or beauty, splendid, golden.
Sentences with aureus
Latin to English
Auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius alta.Compare Who so loves well the golden mean avoids the squalor of a ruinous hovel and is safe, is sober and avoid the palace that attracts envy.
Aurea prima sata est aetas, quae vindice nullo, sponte sua, sine lege fidem rectumque colebat.Compare Golden was that first age, which, with no one to compel, without a law, of its own will, kept faith and did the right
Primo avulso non deficit alter aureus, et simili frondescit virga metallo.Compare When a bough is torn away, another gold one grows in its place with leaves of the same metal.
Ab is quadraginta patera aureus magnus pondus in curia infero.Compare Forty golden bowls of great weight were brought by them into the senate house.
Dictator corona aureus in Capitolium, Iuppiter donum, pono.Compare The dictator placed a golden crown in the Capitol, as a gift to Jupiter.
Declension table for aureus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | aureus | aureī |
| Gen. | aureī | aureōrum |
| Dat. | aureō | aureīs |
| Acc. | aureum | aureōs |
| Voc. | auree | aureī |
| Abl. | aureō | aureīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 472.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 217.
- 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): 126.
Bibliography
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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.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "aureus, aurea, aureum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/aureus-aurea-aureum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 472.on page 472
