dexter, dextra, dextrum

Definitions for dexter

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
right, right-hand
English derivatives:
dexterity dextrous ambidextrous

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Situated on the right-hand side, right-hand; (neut. as sb.) the right-hand side. (N.B.: there is a close connexion with sense 2 and several of the exx. quoted contain both ideas.) (b) (compar.). (c) (superl.) the furthest right.
2
Propitious, favourable: (a) (of gods, etc.). (b) (of things).
3
Dexterous, handy, skilful.

Sentences with dexter

Latin to English

Dexter laevusque duo mare vos claudo.Compare On the right and left hand two seas shut you in.

Hoc insulae dextra sunt navigantibus a continente. Compare These islands are on the right hand as you sail from the mainland.

Infelix est Mucius, quod dextra ignes hostium premit et ipse a se exigit errores sui poenas? Quod regem, quem armata manu non potuit, exusta fugat? Quid ergo? Felicior esset, si in sinu amicae foveret manum?Compare Is Mucius unfortunate because he grasps the flames of the enemy with his right hand and forces himself to pay the penalty of his mistake? Because with his charred hand he routs the king whom his armed hand he could not rout? Tell me, then, would he be happier if he were warming his hand in his mistress's bosom?

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 131.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 535.
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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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. "dexter, dextra, dextrum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified August 19, 2023. Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/dexter-dextra-dextrum.