Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 328.cito on page 328
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cito quickly
cito is a Latin Adverb that primarily means quickly.
Definitions for cito
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
quickly
English derivatives:
excite incite recite
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
With great speed, quickly, fast.
- 2
At an early moment, before long, soon. (b) ~ius dicto and sim., sooner than it was spoken (cf. 'no sooner said than done'); )also other phrs.).
Sentences with cito
Latin to English
Cito fit quod dii volunt.Compare What the gods want happens soon.
Cedo qui vestram rem publicam tantam amisistis tam cito?Compare Tell me, how come your great commonwealth was lost so speedily?
Quam cito ille omnis ex laetitia ad luctus recido, ut, qui paullo ante consul designatus sum, retineo repente nullus vestigium pristinus dignitas!Compare How quickly did all those things fall from gladness to sorrow, so that he, who a short time before had been consul elect, retained on a sudden no vestige of his former dignity!
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!
Quam cito ille omnis praetereo!Compare How quickly have all those things passed away.
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): 328.
- Word frequencies
- 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): 125.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "cito (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 24, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/cito.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 112.cito on page 112
