Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 810.humus on page 810
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humus ground
humus is a Latin Noun that primarily means ground.
Definitions for humus
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
ground, earth, soil
English derivatives:
humus exhume inhume inhumation posthumous
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The earth (as the surface on which things rest or move, and that which extends below this surface), the ground. (b) ~i, on the ground (often as a position indicative of supplication, defeat, etc.); also, in the ground.
- 2
(a) Dry ground. (b) (opp. the sky or heaven, esp. as the symbol of the low or commonplace).
- 3
An area or stretch of ground.
Sentences with humus
Latin to English
Nec pietas ullast velatum saepe videri vertier ad lapidem atque omnis accedere ad aras nec procumbere humi prostratum et pandere palmas ante deum delubra nec aras sanguine multo spargere quanrupedum nec votis nectere vota, sed mage pacata posse omnia mente fueri.Compare It is no piety to show oneself often with covered head, turning toward a stone and approaching every altar, none to fall prostrate upon the ground and to spread open the palms before shrines of the gods, none to sprinkle altars with the blood of beasts in showers and to link vow to vow; but rather to be able to survey all things with mind at peace.
Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fraga, frigidus, o pueri, fugie hinc, latet anguis in herba.Compare Oh children dear, who gather flowers and wild strawberries near, run away quick - away from that grass, a cold cold snake is lurking there.
Sternitur exanimisque tremens procumbit humi bos.Compare Sprawling, guivering, lifeless, down on the ground the brute fell.
Videbar videre alios intrantes, alios autem exeuntes, quosdam ex vino vacillantes, quosdam hesterna ex potatione oscitantes. Humus erat immunda, lutulenta vino, coronis languidulis et spinis cooperta piscium. (Pro Gallio, fragmenta).Compare I thought I saw some people entering, others leaving, some reeling drunkenly, others yawning from last night's tippling; the floor was filthy, stained with wine, covered with withered wreaths and fishbones.
Is ego, humus stratus, suspicio non possum.Compare We, lying on the ground, cannot look up to that.
Declension table for humus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | humus | - |
| Gen. | humī | - |
| Dat. | humō | - |
| Acc. | humum | - |
| Voc. | hume | - |
| Abl. | humō / humū | - |
| Loc. | humī | - |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 263.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 810.
- 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): 126.
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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. "humus, humī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 24, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/humus-humi.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 263.humus, humī on page 263
