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vetus is a Latin Adjective that primarily means old.
Adjective
old
English derivatives:
veteran inveterate veterinary veterinarian
Adjective
Having lived a long time (usu. w. implication of experience), old, veteran. (b) (of plants, etc.) old. (c) (of wine) old, of a ripe age.
Having been long in a given condition, capacity, etc., long-standing, veteran.
(of things) Having been in existence a long time, old, long-established. (b) (of disease) chronic. (c) (neut. as sb.) an old saying; (pl.) old stories.
(of artefacts) Old (with the implication of wear, deterioration, or sim.).
Belonging to or existing in the past, old-time. (b) (of men) belonging to a past age; (of a surviving person) as he was in previous days, the old. (c) (neut. pl. as sb.) old fashions or practices; bygone events.
Probitas laudatur et alget. Criminibus debent hortos praetoria mensas, argentum vetus et stantem extra pocula caprum.Compare Honesty is praised and left out in the cold. Gardens, palaces, rich tables, old silver, and those embossed goats on the cups - men owe these to their crimes.
Vetus illud Catonis admodum scitum est, qui mirari se aiebat quod non rideret haruspex haruspicem cum vidisset. (De Divinatione, II, 51)Compare The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.
Vendat oleum, si pretium habeat, vinum, frumentum quod supersit vendat; boves, vetulos armenta delicula, oves deliculas, lanam, pelles, plostrum vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, servum morbosum, et siquid aliut supersit vendat. Patrem familias vendacem, non emacem esse oportet. (Id., II,7)Compare Sell the oil, if it fetches a good price, sell whatever excess there be of wine and grain; sell off the worn-out oxen, defective cattle, defective sheep, wool, hides, the old wagon, old tools, the aged slave, the sickly slave, and all else that is of no use. The proprietor of an estate should be eager to sell, not to buy.
Romani veteres ... regnari omnes volebant libertatis dulcetudine nondum experta.Compare The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they have not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
Eques Romanus, vetus amicus suus, excipio, fulcio, et sustineo.Compare He received, supported and sustained a Roman knight, an old friend of his own.
Hic ego et Peripateticus et vetus Academia concedo.Compare Both the Peripatetics and the old Academy grant me this.
Adeo et clades vester vetus et beneficium noster erga vos obliviscor?Compare Have you so completely forgotten both your old defeats and our kindnesses towards you?
Partim inertia, partim male gerendus negotium, in vetus aes alienus vacillo.Compare Partly by inactivity, partly by managing their business badly, they stagger under a old of old debts.
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Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "vetus, gen. veteris (adj.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed October 3, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/vetus-gen-veteris.
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