Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1048.lūdus on page 1048
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lūdus school
lūdus is a Latin Noun that primarily means school.
Definitions for lūdus
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
game, sport, school
English derivatives:
ludicrous delude elude elusive allude allusion illusion collusion interlude prelude postlude
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Sport, play. (b) a particular form of sport, game, recreation; ~os sibi facere, to amuse oneself. (c) (transf.) something easy, 'child's play'. (d) amorous sport; esp. in phr. ~us aetatis.
- 2
A performance intended to amuse, entertainment, show.
- 3
(pl.) A set or festival of public games, contests, or theatrical shows, held either in the circus (~i circenses) od in the theatre (~i scaenici); also (rarely sg.). (b) (w. distinguishing eps. - see the adjs. in question; also w. name of festival in appos., regarded by Quintilian, Inst.I.5.52, as a solecism). (c) ~i magni, a general name for special votive games; also, as a permanent festival, = ~i Romani. (d) ~i Romani, games given annually bu the curule aediles, 4-19 Sept. (prob. orig. votive games marking the return of the victorious army). (e) ~i plebeii, games given annually by the plebeian aediles, 4-17 Nov.
Sentences with lūdus
Latin to English
Ad lūdum tuum fīlium meum docendum mīsī.Compare I sent my son to your school to be taught.
Pueri, cum ad ludum advenissent, intrare non poterant.Compare When the boys reached the school, they could not get in.
Puerī in viās urbis ēgressī mox lūdō appropinquābant.Compare The boys, having gone out into the streets of the city, soon were approaching the school.
Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta, dein risus ludus iocusque et numeri innumeri omnes conlacrumarunt.Compare Since Plautus met death, comedy mourns and the stage has emptied, then laughter, frolic, wit, and countless numbers all bewailed him. [Epitaph on himself]
Ludus futurus sum a quartus ad pridie Nonae Maius.Compare The games will last from the fourth to the sixth of May.
Declension table for lūdus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | lūdus | lūdī |
| Gen. | lūdī | lūdōrum |
| Dat. | lūdō | lūdīs |
| Acc. | lūdum | lūdōs |
| Voc. | lūde | lūdī |
| Abl. | lūdō | lūdīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 119.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1048.
- 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. "lūdus, lūdī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/ludus-ludi.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 119.lūdus, lūdī on page 119
