Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1144.mundus on page 1144
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mundus world
mundus is a Latin Noun that primarily means world.
Definitions for mundus
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
world, universe
English derivatives:
mundane demimonde
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The articles a woman uses to beautify herself, toilet, or sim. (b) (in general) instruments, equipment
- 2
The heavens, sky, firmament; also ~us caeli. (b) (in wider sense) the universe.
- 3
The world, the earth. (b) appplied to large tracts of the earth or to counterparts of it.
Adjective
- 1
Free from dirt or impurities, clean. (b) cleared of superfluous growth.
- 2
Elegant or refined in appearance, manners, or taste. (b) elegant or refined in respect of language.
- 3
(colloq.) Considerable in amount or degree, 'nice', 'tidy'.
- 4
in ~o, Ready, waiting, in store (perh. belonging to another word).
Sentences with mundus
Latin to English
Multīs gentibus victīs, tōtum mundum tenēre cupīvistī.Compare When many peoples had been conquered, you (sg.) desired to possess the whole world.
Servitūs omnis generis per tōtum mundum opprimenda est.Compare Slavery of every sort must be checked throughout the whole world.
Quandō cadet Rōma, cadet et mundus. (Medieval pilgrims' proverb, Venerable Bede)Compare When Rome falls, the world will fall, too.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.Compare The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.
Quid mirum, noscere mundum si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis, exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva?Compare Who can wonder that the world is known so well by man, since himself is one? The same composure in his form is shewed, and man's the little image of the God.
Quam multa animalia hoc primum cognovimus saeculo, quam multa negotia ne hoc quidem! Multa venientis aevi populus ignota nobis sciet; multa saeculis tunc futuris cum memoria nostri exoleverit resevantur. Pusilla res mundus est, nisi in illo quod quaertat omnis mundus habeat.Compare How many animals we have come to know for the first time in our own days! Many, too, that are unknown to us, the people of a coming day will know. Many discoveries are reserved for the ages to be, when our memory shall have perished. The world would be a puny thing if future ages found in it nothing to investigate.
Quo nullum maius est, nosse naturam... Utrum mundus terra stante circumeat an mundo stante terra vertatur.Compare That reward, I say, which surpasses all others, the knowledge of nature... [We endeavor to ascertain] whether the earth stands till while the universe revolves around it, or whether the converse is the truth, the universe standing still while the earth revolves.
Universus hic mundus sit una civitas communis deorum atque hominum existimanda.Compare We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Declension table for mundus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | mundus | mundī |
| Gen. | mundī | mundōrum |
| Dat. | mundō | mundīs |
| Acc. | mundum | mundōs |
| Voc. | munde | mundī |
| Abl. | mundō | mundīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 137.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1144.
- 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): 122.
Bibliography
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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. "mundus, mundī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/mundus-mundi.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 137.mundus, mundī on page 137
