beneficium, beneficiī

Definitions for beneficium

Wheelock's Latin

Noun

1
benefit, kindness, favor
English derivatives:
benefice beneficence beneficial beneficiary

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Noun

1
An act tending to the benefit of another, service, kindness. (b) ~ii sui facere, to make dependent on one's favour.
2
(in special contexts): (a) (political). (b) (military).
3
The benefit conferred by a law, edict, legal status, etc.

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Sentences with beneficium

Latin to English

Sī illī duo amīcōs cupiunt, vēra beneficia faciant.Compare If those two men desire friends, let them do real kindnesses.

Beneficia aliīs praestat ut amētur.Compare He shows kindnesses to others in order to be loved (so that he may be loved).

Tanta beneficia faciēbātis ut omnēs vōs amārent.Compare You (pl.) used to do such great kindnesses that all loved you.

Cum mīlitēs nostrī hostēs vicissent, tamen eīs multa beneficia obtulērunt.Compare Although our soldiers had conquered the enemy, nevertheless they offered them many kindnesses.

Cum auxilium offerre minimē vellent, nōluimus eīs beneficia multa praestāre.Compare Since they had very little wish to offer aid, we were unwilling to show them many favors.

Cum cognōvisset quanta beneficia cēterī trēs offerent, ipse aequa beneficia obtulit.Compare When he had learned what great benefits the other three men were offering, he himself offered equal benefits.

Ingratus est quie beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit; ingratus est qui dissimulat; ingratus qui non reddit, ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.Compare The man is ungrateful who denies that he has received a benefit which he has in fact received; he is ungrateful who pretends that he has not received one; he, too, is ungrateful who fails to return one; but the most ungrateful of all is the man who has forgotten a benefit.

Venia civitas peto, civis temeritas bis iam ante eversus, incolumis futurus iterum hostis beneficium.Compare They sought pardon for their state, which had been already twice previously ruined by the rashness of its citizens, and was about to be again safe through the kindness of its enemies.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 125.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 230.
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): 119.

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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. "beneficium, beneficiī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified August 12, 2023. Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/beneficium-beneficii.