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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1457.princeps on page 1457
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prīnceps chief
prīnceps is a Latin Noun that primarily means chief.
Definitions for prīnceps
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
chief, foremost, leader, emperor
English derivatives:
prince principal principality
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
One who begins or originates, initiator, instigator, founder, proposer.
- 2
One who is pre-eminent in a particular sphere, master, expert.
- 3
A leading member, chief man (of a group, state, class, etc.). (b) (without gen.) a leading citizen.
Adjective
- 1
First in time, earliest.
- 2
Taking the front position, leading, first.
- 3
(a) First in numerical series. (b) first in order of logical precedence, most necessary
- 4
Earliest existing, original
- 5
First in authority, dignity, or reputation, most distinguised, leading, chief. (b) (of things) most notable or honourable, chief; ~eps locus, the chief position.
Sentences with prīnceps
Latin to English
Componitur orbis regis ad exemplum, nec sic inflectere sensus humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis: mobile mutatur semper principe vulgus.Compare The world shapes itself after its ruler's pattern, nor can edicts sway men's minds so much as their monarch's life; the unstable crowd ever changes along with the prince.
Non minus principi turpia sunt multa supplicia quam medico multa funera. [De Clementia, I, xxiv, 1)Compare Numerous executions are not less discreditable to a prince than are numerous funerals to a physician.
At Romae ruere in servitium consules, patres, eques: quanto quis illustrior, tanto magis falsi ac festinantes, vultuque composito, ne laeti excessus principis, neu tristiores primordio, lacrimas, gaudium, questus adulationem miscebant.Compare Meanwhile at Rome people plunged into slavery - consuls, senators, knights. The higher a man's rank, the more eager his hypocrisy, and his looks the more carefully studied, so as neither to betray joy at the decease of one emperor nor sorrow at the rise of another, while he mingled delight and lamentations with his flattery.
Titus in itinere mōnstrāvit puerīs mīra aedificia quae prīncipēs in Palātīno aedificāverant.Compare Along the way Titus showed the boys the wonderful buildings that the emperors had built on the Palatine.
Princeps pecunia, civitas autem imperium totus provincia polliceor.Compare To the chiefs he promises money, but to the state he promises the sovereignty of the whole province.
Bellum perfectus, princeps civitas ad Caesar gratulor convenio.Compare The war being finished, the chief men of the states came together to Caesar to offer their congratulations.
Declension table for prīnceps
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | prīnceps | prīncipēs |
| Gen. | prīncipis | prīncipum |
| Dat. | prīncipī | prīncipibus |
| Acc. | prīncipem | prīncipēs |
| Abl. | prīncipe | prīncipibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 190.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1457.
- 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): 120.
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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. "prīnceps, prīncipis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/princeps-principis.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 190.prīnceps, prīncipis on page 190
