Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 578.dulcis on page 578
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dulcis sweet
dulcis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means sweet.
Definitions for dulcis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
sweet, pleasant, agreeable
English derivatives:
dulcify dulcet dulcimer
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Sweet (in taste). (b) (neut. as sb.) sweet food or drink. (c) ~is radix, liquorize-root.
- 2
Not salty (in taste); (of water) not brackish, fresh (dist. from sea water); free from impurity, clear. (b) not stale, fresh. (c) (of soil) wholesome (to plants), 'sweet'.
- 3
Sweet-smelling, fragrant.
- 4
Sweet-sounding, melodious. (b) (of persons, etc.).
- 5
Affording employment (to the mind or senses), delightful agreeable. (b) (neut. as sb.) a source of enjoyment, delight.
Sentences with dulcis
Latin to English
Quam brevis erat dulcis vīta eius!Compare How brief was his sweet life!
Memoria dulcis aetātis mīlia hominum adiuvat.Compare The memory of a sweet period of life helps thousands of men.
Difficilem artem lībertātis dulcis nōn intellēxērunt, nam parvum sapientiae habuērunt.Compare They did not understand the difficult art of sweet liberty, for they had little wisdom.
Beātiōrēs cīvēs prō cīvibus miseriōribus haec dulcia faciēbant.Compare The more fortunate citizens used to do these pleasant things on behalf of the more unfortunate citizens.
Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici: expertus metuit.Compare Making up to a powerful friend seems a pleasant thing to those who have not tried: who has tried will dread it.
Indulge genio, carpamus dulcia, nostrum est quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies. Vive memor leti, fugit hora. hoc quod loquor inde est.Compare Give your genius a chance. Let us gather our sweets! Our life is our own today, tomorrow you will be a dust, a shade, a tale that is told. Live mindful of death, the hour flies, the word that I speak is so much taken from it.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 107.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 578.
- 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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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "dulcis, dulce (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/dulcis-dulce.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 107.dulcis, dulce on page 107
