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rārus rare
rārus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means rare.
Definitions for rārus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
rare
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
(of natural materials) Of loose structure, loose-knit, porous. (b) (of artefacts) having an open texture, loosely woven. (c) (of a structure) having its members or elements widely spaced.
- 2
Spaced thinly or at intervals, sparse. (b) (of persons) widely spaced, scattered. (c) (w. sg. nouns) sparsely occurring. (d) (of a place) sparsely occupied. (e) (of an arrangement or disposition) widely-spaced.
- 3
Spaced apart in time, infrequent, occasional. (b) (neut. as pred., or appos.) a rare occurrence.
- 4
(pred., w. advl. force) Infrequent in the performance of the action indicated.
- 5
Of a kind seldom found, uncommon, rare, scarce. (b) (pl.) few, scarcely any.
Sentences with rārus
Latin to English
Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quae velis, et quae sentias dicere licet. [Historae, I,1]Compare The rare happiness of times when we may think what we please, and express what we think.
Rarum est ... ut satis se quisque vereatur.Compare It is rare for anyone to be sufficiently critical of himself.
Non semper ea sunt, quae videntur: decipit frons prima multos; rara mens intelligit quod interiore condidit cura angulo.Compare Things are not always what they seem; outward form deceives many; rare is the mind that discerns what is carefully concealed within.
Vulgare amici nomen, sed rara est fides.Compare The name of friend is common, but true friendship is rare.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 485.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1575.
- 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): 126.
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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.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "rārus, rāra, rārum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/rarus-rara-rarum.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 485.on page 485
