pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum

Definitions for pulcher

Wheelock's Latin

Adjective

1
beautiful, handsome, fine
English derivatives:
pulchritude

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Adjective

1
Aesthetically pleasing, beautiful, handsome, lovely: (a) (w. ref. to physical beauty). (b) (of inanim. things, natural or man-made). (c) (transf., of speech or writing). (d) (fig., of qualities and other abstract things).
2
(of material or immaterial things) Excellent of its kind, fine, choice, splendid, etc. (b) (of achievements, institutions, etc.) splendid in respect of fame or distinction, glorious, illustrious, etc.
3
Morally beautiful, honourable, noble, etc. (b) (pred., w. inf. of acc. and inf.) it is noble or honourable (to).

Sentences with pulcher

Latin to English

Pulchra patria nostra est lībera.Compare Our beautiful country is free.

Virgō pulchra amicōs mōrum bonōrum amat.Compare The beautiful maiden loves friends of good character.

At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est."Compare O but it's a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one and to hear people say, That's the man!

Ad summam: sapiens uno minor est Iove, dives, liber, honoratus, pulcher, rex denique regum, praecipue sanus, nisi sum pituita molest est.Compare The sum of it all is, the wise man ranks only second to Jove. He is rich, free, honored, beautiful, king (in fine) of kings—above all, he is sound, except when the phlegm troubles him.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 34.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1516.
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): 123.

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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.

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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "pulcher, pulchra, pulchrum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified September 20, 2023. Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/pulcher-pulchra-pulchrum.