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mediocris ordinary
mediocris is a Latin Adjective that primarily means ordinary.
Definitions for mediocris
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
ordinary, moderate, mediocre
English derivatives:
mediocrity
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Of medium size or amount, fairly small, moderate.
- 2
(of abst. things) Moderate in degree, medium, fairly small.
- 3
Of fairly small importance, trivial, minor.
- 4
Of moderate quality, fair, middling.
- 5
Commonplace, ordinary, average. (b) (of rhet. style). (c) of humble station, undistinguished.
Sentences with mediocris
Latin to English
Paulo hoc melius quam mediocre, hoc minus malum quam ut pessumum.Compare It's a little better than mediocre, a little less bad than the worst.
Ad hic mediocris opus est prudentia, an et ingenium praestans et eruditio perfectus?Compare Is moderate wisdom wanted for these things, or both extraordinary talent and consummate learning?
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 214.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1089.
- 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. "mediocris, mediocre (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/mediocris-mediocre.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 214.mediocris, mediocre on page 214
