Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1146.mūnus on page 1146
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mūnus service
mūnus is a Latin Noun that primarily means service.
Definitions for mūnus
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
service, office, function, duty, gift
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
The action demanded of or requisite for a person, a function, task.(b) (of things). (c) (applied to military duties, fatigues, or sim.). (d) ~era suprema, extrema,e tc., the last duties owed to a person, i.e. funeral rites.
- 2
(in full ~us publicum, ciuile, etc.) A duty owed by a citizen to the State (e.g. military service, tenure of magistracies) or by a community (e.g. payment of taxes). (b) an official post or appointment.
- 3
Something given as a duty, a tribute, offering (to deities, the dead, etc.).
Sentences with mūnus
Latin to English
Praecipuum munus annalium reor ne virtutes sileantur utque pravis dictis factisque ex posteritate et infamia metus sit.Compare This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
Totum muneris hoc tui est, quod monstror digito praetereuntium Romanae fidicen lyrae: quod spiro et placeo, si placeo, tuum est.Compare It is all of thy free gift that the finger of the passer-by points me out as the tuner of a Roman lyre. Breath of song and power to please, if please I may, are alike of thee.
Nec quotus annus est, nec quo sit nata require consule; quae rigidus munera censor habet.Compare Ask not how old she is, nor under what consul she was born; these are the duties of the stern Censor.
Res humanas ordine nullo Fortuna regit sparsitque manu munera caeca, peiora fovens; vincit sanctos dira libido, fraus sublimi regnat in aula.Compare Fate without order rules the affairs of men, scatters her gifts with unseeing hand, fostering the worst; dire lust prevails against pure men, and crime sits regnant in the lofty palace.
Munera ne poscas: det munera canus amator, ut foveat molli frigida membra sinu. Carior est auro iuvenis, cui levia fulgent ora nec amplexus aspera barba terit.Compare Never ask for gifts: let a white-haired lover offer them in order to warm his cold limbs against a soft bosom. More precious than gold is a young man: his face is shiny smooth with no beard to scratch in embrace.
Declension table for mūnus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | mūnus | mūnera |
| Gen. | mūneris | mūnerum |
| Dat. | mūnerī | mūneribus |
| Acc. | mūnus | mūnera |
| Abl. | mūnere | mūneribus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 481.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1146.
- 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): 121.
Bibliography
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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.
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Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "mūnus, mūneris (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/munus-muneris.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 481.on page 481
