Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1419.potius on page 1419
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potius rather
potius is a Latin Adverb that primarily means rather.
Definitions for potius
Wheelock's Latin
Adverb
- 1
rather, preferably
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adverb
- 1
(used to indicate that one thing is more correct, applicable, etc., than another) Rather, more (than).
- 2
(correcting or extending a statement) More exactly, rather. (b) uel ~, or rather; also aut, ac. siue~.
Sentences with potius
Latin to English
Nihil est ... quod studio et benevolentia vel amore potius effici non potest.Compare Nothing is ... impossible for devotion and kindness or rather love.
Si sine uxore pati possemus, Quirites, omnes ea molestia careremus; sed quoniam ita natura tradidit, ut nec cum illis satis commode, nec sine illis ullo modo vivi possit, saluti perpetuae potius quam brevi voluptati consulendum.Compare Could we dispense with wives, Romans, we would have one nuisance less. However, since nature has decreed that we cannot live comfortably with them and without them not at all, we should look rather to our long-term welfare than to our short-term pleasure. [Quotation from a speech by Quintus Metellus Numidicus, consul 109 B.C.]
Adventus legatus augeo potius timor civitas quam minuo.Compare The arrival of the ambassadors increased rather than diminished the fear of the state.
Hoc patriumst, potius consuefacere filium sua sponte recte facere quam alieno metu: hoc pater ac dominus interest.Compare That's the way of a father, to accustom his son to do the right thing of his own accord rather than by fear of someone else; that's where a father differs from a master.
Dico hostis sui telum potius quam suffragium iratus civis caput objicio.Compare He said that he would rather expose his life to the weapons of the enemy, than to the votes of enraged citizens.
Nulla est enim societas nobis cum tyrannis, et potius summa distractio est, neque est contra naturam spoliare eum, si possis, quem est honestum necare, atque hoc omne genus pestiferum atque impium ex hominum communitate extermindandum est.Compare We have no tie of fellowship with a tyrant, but rather the bitterest feud; and it is not opposed to nature to rob, if one can, a man whom it is morally right to kill - nay, all that pestilent and abominable race should be exterminated from human society.
Nunc vero opto potius, ut eo in exsilium, quam queror.Compare But now let us wish that he may go into exile, rather than complain of it.
Nunc vero nec locus tibi ullus dulcior esse debet patria nec eam minus diligere debes, quod deformior est, sed misereri potius.Compare No place should be dearer to you than your homeland, nor should you love it less because it has grown uglier, but rather pity it the more.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 484.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1419.
- Word frequencies
- 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.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "potius (adv.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 24, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/potius.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 484.on page 484
