Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 769.gracilis on page 769
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gracilis thin
gracilis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means thin.
Definitions for gracilis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
slender, thin
English derivatives:
gracile
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
(of a person or animal, the limbs, etc.) Slender, slight, slim, thin; (sts. in derogatory sense). (b) (of things) having little thickness, fine, slender.
- 2
Having little width, narrow.
- 3
Having little density or substance; (esp., of the soil) thin, light, or sim. (b) scanty, meagre.
- 4
(a) (of poets their themes, etc.) Not on the grand scale, modest, unambitious. (b) (w. ref. to style of composition) simple, plain, unadorned.
Sentences with gracilis
Latin to English
Quis multa gracilis te puer in rosa perfusus liquidis urget odoribus grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? Cui flavam religas comam, simplex munditiis?Compare What slender youth bedewed with liquid odours courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha, for whom bindst thou in wreaths thy golden hair, plain in thy neatness? (Tr John Milton, "Rendered almost word for word without Rhyme according to the Latin Measure, as near as the language will permit."
Nominibus mollire licet mala, fusca vocetur nigrior Illyrica cui pice sanguis erit. Si Paeta est, Veneri similis. Si flava, Minervae, sit gracilis macie quae male viva sua est. dic habilem quaecumque brevis; quae turgida, plenam; et lateat vitium proximitate boni.Compare With names you soften shortcomings; let her be called swarthy whose blood is blacker than Illyrian pitch; if cross-eyed, she is like Venus; yellow haired, like Minerva; call her slender whose thinness impairs her health; if short, call her trim; if stout, of full body; let its nearness to a virtue conceal a fault.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 181.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 769.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "gracilis, gracile (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 27, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/gracilis-gracile.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 181.gracilis, gracile on page 181
