caecus, caeca, caecum

Definitions for caecus

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
blind
English derivatives:
caecum caecal caecilian

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Lacking the sense of sight, blind. (b) (as the cognomen of Ap/ Claudius). (c) (spec., of Fortune). (d) masc. as sb.
2
Having one's judgement impaired, mentally or morally blind, undiscerning, dull, stupid. (b) (of the judgement or of purposes or actions). (c) (applied to passions, fears, etc., that blind one's judgement. (d) not prescient, unforeseeing (of).
3
Not having a clear aim or purpose, undirected, random, blind; also misdirected. (b) (of expectation, suspicion, etc.) based on inadequate evidence, unsubstantiated; (of a charge) unproven. (c) (of war) whose course and issue is unpredicatble, uncertain.
4
(of fighting, eg. under a testudo) That occurs in the dark; (also. applied to a testudo itself).
5
(of night, clouds, etc.) Opaque, dark, black, impenetrable; (neut. sg. as sb.) darkness; (w. spec. active force) blinding. (b) (applied to what is confused as well as opaque. (c) (spec. of precious stones) opaque.

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Sentences with caecus

Latin to English

Insanam autem esse aiunt quia atrox incerta instabilisque sit; caecam ob eam rem esse iterant quia nil cernat quo sese adplicet; brutam quia dignum atque indignum nequeat internoscere.Compare Foolish, they say because she is cruel, uncertain, fickle; blind, because she does not see whither she goes; stupid because she cannot distinguish between the deserving and the undeserving.

Fortunam insanam esse et caecam et brutam perhibent philosophi.Compare Philosophers say that Fortune is foolish, blind, stupid.

Cum sis incautus nec rem ratione gubernes, noli Fortunam, quae non est, dicere caecam.Compare When you are imprudent and fail to steer your course by reason, do no call Fortune blind, for she is not.

Diodutus Stoicus, caecus, multus annus domus noster vivo.Compare Diodotus the Stoic, when blind, lived many years at our house.

O miser et infelix dies! o falsus spes! o volucer fortuna! o caecus cupiditas! quam cito ille omnis praetereo!Compare O wretched and unhappy day! O false hope! O fleeting fortune! O blind ambition! how quickly have all those things passed away!

Omnis non properans clarus certusque sum: festinatio improvidus sum et caecus.Compare All things will be clear and certain to one not in a hurry: haste is improvident and blind.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 112.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 250.
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): 119-219.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "caecus, caeca, caecum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified August 13, 2023. Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/caecus-caeca-caecum.