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humilis humble
humilis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means humble.
Definitions for humilis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
lowly, humble
English derivatives:
humility humiliate humiliation
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Rising only a short distance from the ground or other surface, low. (b) (of human beings, animals) low in stature, short; (also of legs). (c) (of plants, shrubs) low, stunted. (d) (of water, depressions) shallow.
- 2
Occupying a relatively low position, low down; (neut. as sb.) a low position, (pl.) low-lying parts. (b) (referring to the posture, field of movement, etc. of living creatures).
- 3
(of persons, rank, status) Humble, lowly. (b) (of peoples) humble, insignificant; (also, of man compared with other creatures). (c) (masc. as sb.) a humble or low-born person; (neut.) a low estate.
- 4
(of objects, activities, etc.) Suitable to humble persons or situations, lowly. (b) (rhet., of a tyoe of case) petty, unimportant. (c) (of actions) weak, insignificant.
- 5
Humiliated, humbled.
Sentences with humilis
Latin to English
Praestabat castas humilis fortuna Latina quondam.Compare Humble circumstances formerly kept the Latin women chaste.
Quam humilis, demissus, er sordidus sum istiCompare How mean, low, and sordid is this your deed!
Unus invenio suasor lex Varro, locus non humilis solum, sed etiam sordidus, ortus.Compare The only person found to advocate the law was Varro, a man sprung not merely from a humble, but even from a mean position.
Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum. [In Eutropium, 181]Compare Nothing is so cruel as a man raised from lowly station to prosperity.
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): 809.
- Word frequencies
- 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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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "humilis, humile (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed October 3, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/humilis-humile.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 181.humilis, humile on page 181
