Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1141.mulier on page 1141
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mulier woman
mulier is a Latin Noun that primarily means woman.
Definitions for mulier
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
woman
English derivatives:
muliebrity
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
(in general) A woman. (b) (applied to a womanish man).
- 2
(spec.) A woman who is married or has sexual experience (opp. uirgo).
- 3
(w, gen. or poss. adj.) The woman who cohabits with a man, his wife or mistress.
Sentences with mulier
Latin to English
Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est bona.Compare Only when a woman is openly bad is she really good.
Aut amat aut odit mulier: nihil est tertium.Compare Woman either loves or hates: nothing in between.
Tacitas melio mulier semper quam loquens.Compare A woman's always worth more seen than heard.
Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat. dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.Compare My mistress says, there's not a man of all the many that she knows, she'd rather wed than me, not one, though Jove himself were to propose. She says so: but what woman says to him who fancies he has caught her, 'tis only fit it should be writ in air or running water. (Tr. Theodore Martin)
Mulier saevissima tunc est, cum stimulos odio pudor admovet.Compare A woman is never more ruthless than when shame gives a spur to her hatred.
Mulier profecto natast ex ipsa Mora!Compare Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
Declension table for mulier
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | mulier | mulierēs |
| Gen. | mulieris | mulierum |
| Dat. | mulierī | mulieribus |
| Acc. | mulierem | mulierēs |
| Abl. | muliere | mulieribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 278.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1141.
- 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).
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, 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.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "mulier, mulieris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/mulier-mulieris.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 278.mulier, mulieris on page 278
