dīvitiae, dīvitiārum

Definitions for dīvitiae

Wheelock's Latin

Noun

1
riches, wealth

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Noun

1
Abundance of money or other material possessions, wealth, riches. (b) applied to ornaments, etc.). (c) or sim., to come, etc., into wealthy circumtances, into money.
2
(a) (applied to an abundance of natural products). (b) (of intellectual qualities or sim.).

Sentences with dīvitiae

Latin to English

Hī dīvitiās celerrimē invēnērunt; illī diūtissimē erunt pauperēs.Compare These men obtained wealth very quickly; those will be poor for a very long time.

Ego dīvitiās sapientiae antepōnō. Nōn enim arbitror hominēs vītam fēlīcem sine cōpiā pecūniae reperīre posse.Compare For my part I place wealth ahead of wisdom. For I do not think that human beings can find a happy life without a great deal of money.

Omnis enim res, virtus, fama, divina humanaque pulchris divitiis parent; quas qui construxerit, ille clarus erit, fortus, iustus. "sapiensne?" etiam, et rex et quiquid volet.Compare Riches,you know, are the beautiful things: everything else, worth, repute, honor, things divine and things human, bow down to them. Any one who has gathered a pile of them will be famous, gallant, just. "And wise too?" Certainly - and a king and anything else he could wish.

Divitias alius fulvo sibi congerat auro et teneat culti iugera multa soli, quem labor adsiduus vicino terreat hoste, Martia cui somnos classica pulsa fugent: me mea paupertas vita traducat inerti, dum meus adsiduo luceat igne focus. (Elegiae, I,1,1)Compare Let others amass riches of yellow gold and own many acres of farmland; let other toil without respite in fear of the nearby enemy, their sleep chased by the blasts of trumpets summoning to battle. For myself, I will be content to lead an inactive life in poverty, provided that my hearth shine with a steady fire.

Hic lex is homo divitiae augeo, periculum libero.Compare This law has enriched those men with wealth, and has freed them from danger.

Nec somnum plebis laudo satur altilium nec otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.Compare And do not think that I praise the sleep of the humble while my own belly is with fat capon lined. I have no mind to exchange my ease and freedom for the riches of the Arabs.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 85.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 565.
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): 123.

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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.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "dīvitiae, dīvitiārum (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified September 3, 2023. Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/divitiae-divitiarum.