Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 218.aurum on page 218
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aurum gold
aurum is a Latin Noun that primarily means gold.
Definitions for aurum
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
gold
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Gold as a metal. (b) (as a type of yellowish colour; cf. sense 6). (c) (w. ref. to the mythical golden age).
- 2
Gold as a valuable possession or medium of exchange, treasure, money, riches. (b) ~um CORONARIVM , money awarded in lieu of crowns to triumphant generals. ~um VICESIMARIVM, revenue from the duty on manumitted slaves.
- 3
Gold used for ornamentation.
Sentences with aurum
Latin to English
Vilius argentum est auro, virtutibus aurum.Compare As gold is worth more than silver, so is virtue than gold.
Fures privatorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt; fures publici in auro atque in purpura. (Praeda militibus dividenda)Compare Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains; those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
Eo, consul, redimo arma civitas qui aurum maiores noster redimo.Compare Hasten, ye consuls, ransom with arms the state which our ancestors ransomed with gold.
Declension table for aurum
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | aurum | aura |
| Gen. | aurī | aurōrum |
| Dat. | aurō | aurīs |
| Acc. | aurum | aura |
| Abl. | aurō | aurīs |
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): 218.
- 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.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "aurum, aurī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/aurum-auri.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 472.on page 472
