Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 486.dea on page 486
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dea goddess
dea is a Latin Noun that primarily means goddess.
Definitions for dea
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
goddess
English derivatives:
adieu deify deity
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A goddess.
Sentences with dea
Latin to English
Incipe, parve puer: qui non risere parenti, nec deus hunc mensa, dea nec dignata cubuli est.Compare Begin, dear babe. The boy who does not smile at his mother, will never deserve to sup with a god or sleep with a goddess.
Dixit et avertens rosea cervice refulsit, ambrosiaque comae divinum vertice odorem spiravere; pedes vestis defluxit ad imos; et vera incessu patuit dea.Compare She spoke. She turned away; and as she turned, her neck glowed to a rose-flush, her crown of ambrosial hair breathed out a heavenly fragrance, her robe flowed down, down to her feet, and in gait she was all a goddess.
Si Latona dea puto, Hecata non puto, qui mater Asteria sum, Latona soror?Compare If you consider Latona a goddess, do you not consider Hecate one, who is the daughter of Asteria, Latona's sister?
Lucus ille laetus in medium pascua habeo, ubi omnis genus sacer dea pascor pecus sine ullus pastor.Compare That grove has in its centre fair pastures, where cattle of every sort, sacred to the goddess, were grazing without any keeper.
Declension table for dea
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | dea | deae |
| Gen. | deae | deārum |
| Dat. | deae | deābus |
| Acc. | deam | deās |
| Abl. | deā | deābus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 39.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 486.
- 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): 120.
Bibliography
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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.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "dea, deae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 23, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/dea-deae.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 39.dea, deae on page 39
