Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 906.ingēns on page 906
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ingēns huge
ingēns is a Latin Adjective that primarily means huge.
Definitions for ingēns
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
huge
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Of very great size or dimensions, huge, vast. (b) of very great extent or area. (c) (qualifying nouns of dimensions or sim.).
- 2
Very great in number or amount. (b) (w. words denoting number or amount).
- 3
Very great in degree or intensity: (a) (of physical phenomena, esp. sounds). (b) (of actions, feelings, qualities, conditions).
- 4
(of persons, families, etc.) Very great, powerful, influential, or sim. (b) (w. abl. or other const.) outstanding, remarkable (in some respect). (c) (of things) of outstanding importance, notable, momentous, etc.
- 5
(of character) Lofty, proud, heroic, aspiring, etc.; (also of enterprises, etc.). (b) (in bad sense) haughty, overweening.
Sentences with ingēns
Latin to English
Et eunt homines mirari alta montium, et ingentes fluctus maris, et latissimos lapsus fluminum, et Oceani ambitum, et gyros siderum, et relinquunt se ipsos.Compare Men go forth to marvel at the mountain heights, at huge waves in the sea, at the board expanse of flowing rivers, at the wide reaches of the ocean, and at the circuits of the stars, but themselves they pass by.
At ingenium ingens inculto latet hoc sub corpore.Compare Under that uncouth outside are hidden vast gifts of mind.
Artificis naturae ingens opus aspice.Compare Look upon the immense work of the artist Nature.
Cernis, ut ingentes murorum porrigat umbras campus, et e speculis moriens itnermicet ignis?Compare Seest thou how the plain outstretched the vast shadow of the wall, and how the dying fires flicker from the watch towers?
Impleo exspectatio vanus multitudo terra mareque ingens paro bellum.Compare He filled the multitude with an idle expectation that a mighty war was being prepared by sea and land.
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): 906.
- 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): 120.
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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. "ingēns, ingentis (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/ingens-ingentis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 107.on page 107
