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sānctus holy
sānctus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means holy.
Definitions for sānctus
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
sacred, holy
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
(of laws, obligations, etc.) Secured by religious sanctions, sacrosanct, inviolate. (b) (of persons, usu. by virtue of an office or appointment). (c) (of places, institutions, etc.); consilium ~ius, an inner council; AERARIVM ~ius, the part of the treasury at Rome containing a special war-reserve. (d) (of oaths, etc.). (e) (defined).
- 2
(of things associated with the gods or religion or in any way under divine protection) Holy, sacred.
- 3
(of gods) Holy, blessed; (also of their attributes, etc.). (b) (of poets, prophets). (c) (of the dead). (d) (of parents; of the attributes of age). (e) (of the senate and other institutions).
- 4
(in a moral sense) Scrupulous, upright, blameless, virtuous, etc. (b) (of actions, character, etc.). (c) (of style) pure, chaste.
Sentences with sānctus
Latin to English
Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes, dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur.Compare Stranger, tell the Spartans that you saw where we lie buried, for having obeyed the sacred laws of our homeland. [Translation from Simonides]
Adeo sanctum est vetus omne poema.Compare So sacred a thing is any ancient poem.
Res humanas ordine nullo Fortuna regit sparsitque manu munera caeca, peiora fovens; vincit sanctos dira libido, fraus sublimi regnat in aula.Compare Fate without order rules the affairs of men, scatters her gifts with unseeing hand, fostering the worst; dire lust prevails against pure men, and crime sits regnant in the lofty palace.
Tu ille sanctus limen intro?Compare Did you dare to enter that most holy door?
Declension table for sānctus
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | sānctus | sānctī |
| Gen. | sānctī | sānctōrum |
| Dat. | sānctō | sānctīs |
| Acc. | sānctum | sānctōs |
| Voc. | sāncte | sānctī |
| Abl. | sānctō | sānctīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 486.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1687.
- 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.
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, 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.
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. "sānctus, sāncta, sānctum (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 23, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/sanctus-sancta-sanctum.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 486.on page 486
