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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 278.carmen on page 278
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carmen song
carmen is a Latin Noun that primarily means song.
Definitions for carmen
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
song, poem
English derivatives:
charm
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A solemn or ritual utterance, usually sung or chanted and in metrical form: (a) a religious hymn. (b) a magical chant, spell, or incantation. (c) an oracle or prophecy; a riddle. (d) ribald lines sung by soldiers at triumphs, etc. (e) a legal formula or pronouncement; a ceremonial formula.
- 2
A song, poem, play (or part of a play). (b) a metrical inscription or epitaph. (c) (Identified w. subject of poem).
- 3
(sg. or pl.) Poetry, song. (b) (spec.) lyric poetry.
Sentences with carmen
Latin to English
Carmine formosae, pretio avarae: gaudeat, ut digna est, versibus illa novis. (Elegiae, I, 7)Compare Beautiful girls are won by poetry, greedy girls by money: may (Neaera) enjoy these verses as she deserves.
Cantet, amat quod quisque; levant et carmina curas.Compare Let everyone sing of what he love; songs, too, relieve love's anxieties.
Hanc ego non auro, non Indis flectere conchis, sed putui blandi carminis obasequio.Compare Not with gold nor Indian pearls did I win her, but with the caress of my sweet song.
Tum septem et viginti virgo, longus indutus vestis carmen in Juno regina canens eo.Compare Then seven and twenty virgins, clad in a long robe, went singing a song in honour of Juno the queen of the gods,
Declension table for carmen
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | carmen | carmina |
| Gen. | carminis | carminum |
| Dat. | carminī | carminibus |
| Acc. | carmen | carmina |
| Abl. | carmine | carminibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 45.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 278.
- 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): 122.
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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. "carmen, carminis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/carmen-carminis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 45.carmen, carminis on page 45
