Oxford Latin Dictionary
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turpis ugly
turpis is a Latin Adjective that primarily means ugly.
Definitions for turpis
Wheelock's Latin
Adjective
- 1
ugly, shameful, base, disgraceful
English derivatives:
turpitude
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Adjective
- 1
Offensive to the senses, physically disgusting, foul, loathsome. (b) (of clouds, darkness, or sim.).
- 2
Repulsive to the sight, ugly, unsightly. (b) (transf., w. ref. to sound).
- 3
(of conduct, treatment, etc.) Shameful to do, experience, etc., disgraceful, dishonourable, degrading, or sim. (b) (~e est, etc., as complement of an inf., acc. and inf., or sim.). (c) (of reports, accusations, etc., asserting disgraceful conduct). (d) ~e iudicium, ~is actio (leg.) a case involving charges of scandalous conduct (leading to infamia if the accused was convicted).
- 4
(of persons) Guilty of disgraceful behaviour or practices.
- 5
(spec., of language, practices, etc.) Indecent, filthy, obscene.
Sentences with turpis
Latin to English
Istō homine turpissimō expulsō, senātus cīvibus fidēliōribus dōna dedit.Compare When that very base man had been banished, the senate gave gifts to the more faithful citizens.
Eum ōrāvī nē rēgī turpī pārēret.Compare I begged him not to obey the disgraceful king.
At nemō erat quī istum hominem turpem dēfenderet.Compare But there was no one who would defend that base fellow.
Cīvēs turpēs ex rē pūblicā discēdant ut in pāce vīvāmus.Compare Let the base citizens depart from (our) republic so that we may live in peace.
Nomen amicitae sic, quatenus expedit, haeret; calculus in tabula mobile ducit opus. Cum fortuna manet, vultum servatis, amici; cum cecidit, turpi vertitis ora fuga.Compare The name of friendship endures so long as there is profit in it; the counter of the boards plays a changeable game. While my luck holds you give me smiles. my friend; when it is out, you turn your faces away in shameful flight.
Sed, ut hic omitto, quid foedus, quis perturbatus hic ab urbs discessus, sive potius turpis fuga?Compare But, to pass over these things, what was more unseemly or more disorderly than this departure from the city, or rather than this most disgraceful flight?
Omnis aut vetulas habes amicas aut turpis vetulisque foedioris.Compare All you women friends are old or ugly, which is worse than old.
Purpura aetati occultandaest, aurum turpi mulieri.Compare Purple belongs to shady years, jewels to ugly women.
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 174.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1994.
- 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): 122.
Bibliography
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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. "turpis, turpe (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/turpis-turpe.
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Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 174.turpis, turpe on page 174
