rēs pūblica, reī pūblicae

Definitions for rēs pūblica

Wheelock's Latin

Noun

1
state, commonwealth, republic
English derivatives:
Republican

Oxford Latin Dictionary

Noun

1
Activities affecting the whole people, affairs of state, etc.; (also pl. in sim, sense). (b) (in phr. rem publicam gerere or administrare; often used of generals, etc., conducting a war). (c) a particular item of public businesses.
2
The welfare of the state, the public good; e re publica, in the national interest. (b) (also pl.) the resources of the state.
3
The body politic, the state (in a place specified or implied; esp. w. ref. to Rome). (b) a particular instance of state, esp. w. ref. to its constitution; app. also, the constitution itself.

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Sentences with rēs pūblica

Latin to English

Rēs pūblica magnā cūrā ab eō gest est.Compare The state was managed by him with great care.

Bona fidēs et amor huius reī pūblicae possunt nōs cōnservāreCompare Good faith and the love of this republic can save us.

Hīs duōbus virīs imperium tenentibus, rēs pūblica valēbit.Compare If (since, etc.) these two men hold the power, the republic will be strong.

Sī rēs pūblica nostra valet, nihil tibi timendum est.Compare If our republic is strong, nothing is to be feared by you (sg.).

Hostēs spērant sē omnēs rēs pūblicās victūros esse.Compare The enemy hope that they will conquer all states.

Illa rēs pūblica minima maximās spēs habuit.Compare That very small republic had the greatest hopes.

Dēnique hī centum cīvēs reī pūblicae auxilium ferant.Compare Finally, let these hundred citizens bear aid to the republic.

Doleo, doleo, Patres conscriptus, res publica brevis tempus pereo.Compare I was grieving, I was grieving, conscript Fathers, that the republic was about shortly to perish.

Data sources

Notes

Definitions
Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 143.
P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1635.
Word frequencies
Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
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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Citation

Chicago (17th ed.)

Allo Contributors. "rēs pūblica, reī pūblicae (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified September 29, 2023. Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/res-publica-rei-publicae.