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Macer

name

Macer

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.2… Annum vertentem Romae Licinius quidem Macer et postea Fenestella statim ab initio duodecim …Macer

machina

noun

machines

In the library

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 7… quippè Studiosi et Braheus, mirabilibus machinis totis noctibus intendebant Lunæ sideribusque, …machines

macto

verb

is slaughtered

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.20… etiam hinc colligunt quod sus praegnans ei mactatur, quae hostia propria est terrae. et Mercurium …is slaughtered

Maghfeld

name

Mayfield

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 1… de Stratford Archiepiscopus Cant. apud Maghfeld, dux Regis & ejus Consiliarius principalis in …Mayfield

magicus

adjective

magic

In the library

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 1… in historiam Libussæ Viraginis, arte Magica celebratissimæ: factum quadam nocte, ut post …magic

magis

adverb

more; rather

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.1… habeas semel circumire. quotiens ibis, totiens magis placebit quod bonum erit. vicini quo pacto …more

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.2… initio duodecim mensum fuisse scripserunt: sed magis Iunio Gracchano et Fulvio et Varroni et …rather
  • 20.4… aut per inprudentiam accidit, aut, quod magis credo, ea superstitione qua inpar numerus …rather
  • 20.4… ea superstitione qua inpar numerus plenus et magis faustus habebatur.more
  • 22.5… alias breviores. at civitatium menses vel magis numero dierum inter se discrepant, sed dies …more

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.2… Deum nulla est iacere prostratum et gratulari magis et temporis munus amplecti, quod dum nostram …rather

magister

noun

to teachers; as teacher; Master; master; teachers; a master; a teacher

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.7hoc mense mercedes exsoluebant magistris, quas completus annus deberi fecit, comitia …to teachers
  • 13.1… rudi et saeculo adhuc impolito solo ingenio magistro comprehendere potuit, uel quia Graecorum …as teacher

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 8… Archiepiscopi Papa ad preces Domini Regis M. Johanni de Offord ejus Cancellario …Master
  • 10Per idem tempus Capitulum Cant. M. Thomam Bradewardyn de Condennâ Roffensis …Master
  • 10… & priusquam electio ad Papam pervenit, Papa M. Thomae more solito dedit Archiepiscopatum …Master
  • 12Igitur M. Thoma de Curiâ Romanâ revertente consecrato, …Master

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 6Denique reversus navis magister, meque repetens, repulsam tulit, valdè me …master
  • 11… ipsa, de suis artibus, et quos earum habuisset magistros in gente tantùm à cæteris diremta. Tunc illa …teachers
  • 13Nec mora consentio, ut Magistrum illa suum accersat, et consideo, paratus ad …master

On the way to English master

  1. Latin · early 400smagister · a master; a teacher
  2. Middle English · about 1390maister · a master; a learned man
  3. Early Modern English · 1667master · a master, a teacher
  4. English todaymaster

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magistratus

noun

office; of officials

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.7… horum plerique ob odium vel gratiam, quo quis magistratu citius abiret diutiusve fungeretur aut publici …office

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 14.12… de adiectis diebus instituit, ne ambitionem magistratuum augeret adiectio.of officials

magnitudo

noun

size; greatness

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.7… fungeretur aut publici redemtor ex anni magnitudine in lucro damnove esset, plus minusve ex …size

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.2… animi uirtutibus congredi quanta pectoris magnitudo est, quanta sublimitas in ruinis humani generis …greatness

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.17… quoque uocatur deus Maius, qui est Iuppiter, a magnitudine scilicet ac maiestate dictus.greatness
  • 12.20… celebratur, terram esse hoc adeptam nomen a magnitudine, sicut et Mater Magna in sacris uocatur, …greatness

magnus

adjective

larger; great; greater; chief; the elder; the elders; Great; much; greater things

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.4… scito pro ratione fructum esse. instrumenti ne magni siet, loco bono siet. videto, quam minimi …great

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.3… November et December XXX; quorum quattuor maiores pleni, ceteri sex cavi vocabantur.larger
  • 20.6… annos civiles aliquanto naturalibus esse maiores, quod delictum ut corrigeretur, pontificibus …greater
  • 20.8adeo aberratum est ut G. Caesar pontifex maximus suo III et M. Aemilii Lepidi consulatu, quo …chief
  • 22.9… dicebantur. proximos duos a populo, Maium a maioribus natu, Iunium a iunioribus. ceteros ab ordine …the elder
  • 22.12Maium vero non a maioribus, sed a Maia nomen accepisse, quod eo mense tam …the elders

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.1.2… aut mellis proferas aut vini misceas. sed si <maius> vas erit, nonnihil vini melizomo mittas, …larger
  • 7.13.3… dulcia: siligineos rasos frangis, et buccellas maiores facies. in lacte infundis, frigis, ex [in] …larger

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.20… adeptam nomen a magnitudine, sicut et Mater Magna in sacris uocatur, adsertionemque aestimationis …Great

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 8… dedit, viro debili & paralitico; qui pecuniam magnam undique mutuans ad magnam summam, inutiliter …much
  • 8… qui pecuniam magnam undique mutuans ad magnam summam, inutiliter Papam eam exeniavit & …great

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 5… Itaque negocium suis dedit Studiosis, quos magno numero alebat, uti mecum crebrò loquerentur, …great
  • 8… scientiæ cognitionem veni: quæ mihi ad majora viam paravit.greater things
  • 35… longa, vel eo paulò minus, quibus et Sol major, et sub fixis tardus, et venti nulli. Itaque …larger
  • 37… Veneris et Mercurij à Sole observent multo majores quàm nos. Ijsdem et Venus certis temporibus …greater
  • 37… et Venus certis temporibus duplo apparet major, quàm nobis, præsertim ijs, qui sub polo …larger
  • 39… discorum instituta comparatione, quindecuplo major sit illorum Volva, Lunâ nostrâ. Quibus verò …larger

Maia

name

Maia; to Maia

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.12Maium vero non a maioribus, sed a Maia nomen accepisse, quod eo mense tam Romae quam …Maia
  • 22.12… mense tam Romae quam antea in Latio res divina Maiae fit et Mercurio. Iunium quoque a Iunone potius …to Maia

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.18Cingius mensem nominatum putat a Maia, quam Vulcani dicit uxorem, argumentoque …Maia
  • 12.18… facit. sed Piso uxorem Vulcani Maiestam non Maiam dicit uocari.Maia
  • 12.19contendunt alii Maiam Mercurii matrem mensi nomen dedisse, hinc …Maia
  • 12.19… probantes, quod hoc mense mercatores omnes Maiae pariter Mercurioque sacrificant.to Maia
  • 12.20… quidam, quibus Cornelius Labeo consentit, hanc Maiam, cui mense Maio res diuina celebratur, terram …Maia

Maiesta

name

Maiesta

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.18… rem diuinam facit. sed Piso uxorem Vulcani Maiestam non Maiam dicit uocari.Maiesta

maiestas

noun

majesty

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 19.1… et iam paene morienti iuuenis honore et maiestate uenerabilis, statu celsus et clarus aspectu et …majesty

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.17… qui est Iuppiter, a magnitudine scilicet ac maiestate dictus.majesty

maior

adjective

greater

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 14.1… et sub specie obseruationis emergebat maior confusionis occasio.greater
  • 14.12… adiectosque omnes a se dies fastos notauit, ut maiorem daret actionibus libertatem, et non solum …greater

maiores

noun

ancestors; the ancestors; elders

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.1… sit, et item fenerari, si tam honestum sit. maiores nostri sic habuerunt et ita in legibus …ancestors

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.8maiores quoque nostri idem sunt aemulati, cum annum …ancestors
  • 22.9… Aprilem ab Aphrodite, id est Venere, unde maiores eius oriundi dicebantur. proximos duos a …ancestors

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.12… sacrificium insigne Veneri per hunc mensem a maioribus institutum sit, sed ne in carminibus quidem …the ancestors
  • 12.16… posuit, Romulum dicit, postquam populum in maiores iunioresque diuisit, ut altera pars consilio, …elders
  • 12.30… Nisus in commentariis fastorum dicit apud maiores quoque nostros haec appelatio mensis diu …ancestors

Maius

name, adjective

May; Maius; of May

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.3… hoc modo habebant: Martius XXXI, Aprilis XXX, Maius XXXI, Iunius XXX, Quintilis XXXI, Sextilis et …May
  • 22.6apud Albanos Martius est sex et triginta, Maius viginti duum, Sextilis duodeviginti, September …May
  • 22.9… oriundi dicebantur. proximos duos a populo, Maium a maioribus natu, Iunium a iunioribus. ceteros …May
  • 22.12Maium vero non a maioribus, sed a Maia nomen …May

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.3… tricenum essent dierum, quattuor uero, Martius Maius Quintilis October, tricenis et singulis …May
  • 12.16Maium Romulus tertium posuit. de cuius nomine inter …May
  • 12.16… tueretur, in honorem utriusque partis hunc Maium, sequentem Iunium mensem uocasse.Maius
  • 12.17… apud quos nunc quoque uocatur deus Maius, qui est Iuppiter, a magnitudine scilicet ac …Maius
  • 12.18… utitur, quod flamen Vulcanalis Kalendis Maiis huic deae rem diuinam facit. sed Piso uxorem …of May
  • 12.20… Labeo consentit, hanc Maiam, cui mense Maio res diuina celebratur, terram esse hoc adeptam …of May
  • 12.30Iunius Maium sequitur aut ex parte populi, ut supra diximus, …May
  • 13.7Martius uero Maius Quintilis et October dies tricenos singulos …May
  • 14.7… ne deum inferum religio immutaretur, et Martio Maio Quintili Octobri seruauit pristinum statum, …May

male

adverb

badly, evil; badly; wrong

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.4… consequitur minimeque invidiosus, minimeque male cogitantes sunt qui in eo studio occupati sunt. …badly, evil
  • 5.2familiae male ne sit, ne algeat, ne esuriat: opere bene …badly
  • 5.2… malo et alieno prohibebit. vilicus si nolet male facere, non faciet. si passus erit, dominus …wrong

Mallinges

name

Malling

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 5Apud Mallinges fecit duas Abbatissas; & mox obierunt. Nec …Malling

Mallyng

name

Malling

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 17… Roffensis Abbatias & Monasteria de Liesnes & Mallyng visitans, invenit ea ita destructa per malam …Malling

malo

verb

he preferred; preferring

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.8… ut oportebat, neque annos ad solem convenire, maluit annum corrigere, ut sic etiam menses civiles …he preferred

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 10… more solito dedit Archiepiscopatum Cant. malens grates habere ipsemet quàm eligentes. Sed post …preferring

malum

noun

wrongdoing; of evils; of harm

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 5.2… ne esuriat: opere bene exerceat, facilius malo et alieno prohibebit. vilicus si nolet male …wrongdoing

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.1… crediderit christianus, ut immunis a contactu malorum mundo et saeculo feliciter perfruatur et non …of evils
  • 12.4… uirtutem, cum contemnenda sit omnis iniuria malorum praesentium fiducia futurorum bonorum.of evils

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 17… esset recensere. Nobis nihil admodum evenit mali. Tenebras enim Telluris quam longæ illæ sunt, …of harm

malus

adjective

bad; of the bad; worse; for the wicked

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.1… condemnari, feneratorem quadrupli. quanto peiorem civem existimarint feneratorem quam furem, hinc …worse
  • 2.2… se fecisse, servos non valuisse, tempestates malas fuisse, servos aufugisse, opus publicum …bad

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 15.3… moriuntur et iusti, non est quod putetis malis et bonis interitum esse communem.for the wicked

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.11.2Vt mel malum bonum facias: mel malum bonum facies ad …bad
  • 1.11.2Vt mel malum bonum facias: mel malum bonum facies ad vendendum, unam partem mali et …bad
  • 1.11.2… malum bonum facies ad vendendum, unam partem mali et duas boni si simul miscueris.of the bad

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 17… Mallyng visitans, invenit ea ita destructa per malam diutinam custodiam; quòd durante isto saeculo …bad

mancipo

verb

is handed over

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.3… aqua et spiritu non renatus gehennae ignibus mancipatur.is handed over

mandatum

noun

order, mandate

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 6… Roffensis dato ad Archidiaconum Roff. mandato anno MCCCXLIX. die xxvii. Junii, sub poenâ …order, mandate

mando

verb

entrusted; he committed; ordered

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.7… libidine intercalando rem sibi ad corrigendum mandatam ultro quod depravarunt,entrusted

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 14.15… aereae tabulae ad aeternam custodiam incisione mandauit.he committed

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 7… beneficia sua deserverunt. Hos Episcopus mandavit Parochias suas repetere; & Rectoribus seu …ordered

mane

adverb

in the morning

In the library

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 24… ex nostratibus mensibus: quippè Sole orituro manè, integrum ferè Zodiaci signum postridiè plus …in the morning

maneo

verb

remained; remains

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.3… adhuc secundum legem primae natiuitatis manet caro ista communis?remains

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.30… quoque nostros haec appelatio mensis diu manserit, sed post detritis quibusdam litteris ex …remained

manerium

noun

manors

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 14… de subitâ mutatione saeculi; quia in omnibus Maneriis Episcopatûs aedificia & clausurae corruebant, & …manors
  • 14… aedificia & clausurae corruebant, & vix Maneria illo anno de centum libris respondebant.manors

Manes

name

the Manes, spirits of the dead

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 13.3… necesse erat, quo statuit ut iusta dis Manibus soluerentur.the Manes, spirits of the dead

manifeste

adverb

more clearly; clearly

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 19.1Denique ut manifestius diuinae prouidentiae indicia clarescerent quod …more clearly
  • 20.1… quotiens reuelatum est, quam frequenter adque manifeste de Dei dignatione praeceptum est, ut …clearly

manus

noun

hand; with the hands; hands; by the hand; and hands

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 5.1… bona utatur. feriae serventur. alieno manum abstineat, sua servet diligenter. litibus …hand
  • 76.1… mortarium purum indito siccatoque bene. deinde manibus depsito. ubi bene subactum erit, farinae L. …with the hands

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 15.8… timet delicata matrona metum persecutionis et manus cruciatusque carnificis moriendi celeritate …hands

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 3Primis pueritiæ annis mater me manu trahens, interdumque humeris sublevans, crebrò …by the hand
  • 13… peractis, revertitur, prætensâ dextræ manus palmâ silentium imperans, propterque me …hand
  • 15… vectio. Tunc libero aëri exponimus corpora, manusque subtrahimus. Atque illa in sese conglobantur ut …and hands

marca

noun

of marks

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 7… quorum proventus annui ad verum valorem x. marcarum se non extendunt, licentiam dedit annuatim unum …of marks

Marcius

name

Marcius

In the library

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.16… secundo: qui autem Sextilis fuerat, ex SC. Marcio Censorino C. Asinio Gallo cons. in Augusti …Marcius

Marcus

name

of Marcus; Marcus

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.8… est ut G. Caesar pontifex maximus suo III et M. Aemilii Lepidi consulatu, quo retro delictum …of Marcus
  • 22.16… Iulius cognominatus est C. Caesare V et M. Antonio cons. anno Iuliano secundo: qui autem …Marcus

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.34… Iulii Caesaris dictatoris, legem ferente M. Antonio M. filio consule, Iulius appellatus …Marcus
  • 12.34… Caesaris dictatoris, legem ferente M. Antonio M. filio consule, Iulius appellatus est, quod hoc …of Marcus
  • 14.2… statae definitionis coegit, adnitente sibi M. Flauio scriba, qui scriptos dies singulos ita …Marcus

mare

noun

the sea; seas

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.3… aquarium, oppidum validum prope siet aut mare aut amnis, qua naves ambulant, aut via bona …the sea

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.14… triste sit caelum et nubibus obductum, sed et mare nauigantibus clausum, terrae etiam ipsae aut …the sea

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 15… ac si pulvere Bombardico excussus, montes et maria tranaret. Proptereà Narcoticis et Opiatis, …seas

Mars

name

Mars; to Mars

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.9… primos a parentibus suis nominasse, Martium a Marte patre, Aprilem ab Aphrodite, id est Venere, …Mars
  • 22.11itaque Martium mensem a Marte quidem nominatum credit, non quia Romuli fuerit …Mars

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.5… ordinatio, qui primum anni mensem genitori suo Marti dicauit. quem mensem anni primum fuisse uel ex …to Mars
  • 12.8… rationem, ut primum quidem mensem a patre suo Marte, secundum ab Aeneae matre Venere nominaret, et …Mars
  • 12.8… Romani nominis origo, cum hodieque in sacris Martem patrem, Venerem genetricem uocemus.Mars
  • 12.9… ita primos ordinasse menses ut, cum praecedens Marti esset dicatus deo plerumque hominum necatori, …to Mars

Martius

name, adjective

March; of March; for March

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.3hi decem menses dies CCCIIII hoc modo habebant: Martius XXXI, Aprilis XXX, Maius XXXI, Iunius XXX, …March
  • 22.6apud Albanos Martius est sex et triginta, Maius viginti duum, …March
  • 22.9… duos primos a parentibus suis nominasse, Martium a Marte patre, Aprilem ab Aphrodite, id est …March
  • 22.11itaque Martium mensem a Marte quidem nominatum credit, non …of March

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.3… mensibus ordinatum, qui annus incipiebat a Martio, et conficiebatur diebus trecentis quattuor, ut …March
  • 12.3… tricenum essent dierum, quattuor uero, Martius Maius Quintilis October, tricenis et singulis …March
  • 12.34… Iulius qui, cum secundum Romuli ordinationem, Martio anni tenente principium, Quintilis a numero …March
  • 13.7Martius uero Maius Quintilis et October dies tricenos …March
  • 13.15… religionis suae more, ut Februarium omni modo Martius consequeretur.March
  • 14.7… diem, ne deum inferum religio immutaretur, et Martio Maio Quintili Octobri seruauit pristinum …for March

martyrium

noun

martyrdom; of martyrdom

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 16.2… et Dei seruis plurimum praestitit quod martyrium coepimus libenter adpetere, dum mortem discimus …martyrdom
  • 17.1… toto me corde et plena uirtute deuoueram martyrio meo priuor, dum morte praeuenior’.of martyrdom
  • 17.2… non est in tua potestate sed in Dei dignatione martyrium, nec potes te dicere perdidisse quod nescis an …martyrdom

māter

noun

mother; Mother; of mother

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Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.8… mensem a patre suo Marte, secundum ab Aeneae matre Venere nominaret, et hi potissimum anni …mother
  • 12.19contendunt alii Maiam Mercurii matrem mensi nomen dedisse, hinc maxime probantes, …mother
  • 12.20… esse hoc adeptam nomen a magnitudine, sicut et Mater Magna in sacris uocatur, adsertionemque …Mother

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… patria Islandia, quam veteres Thulen dixêre: mater erat Fiolxhildis, quæ nuper mortua, scribendi …mother
  • 3Primis pueritiæ annis mater me manu trahens, interdumque humeris sublevans, …mother
  • 4… per curiositatem rescisso sacculo, quem mater ignara vendebat, herbisque et linteis, quæ acu …mother
  • 4… explicatis, ipsam hoc lucello fraudassem: mater irâ succensa, me loco sacculi Nauclero proprium …mother
  • 7… Lunæ sideribusque, quæ me res admonebat matris, quippè et ipsa assiduè cum Luna solita erat …of mother
  • 10Prima mei reditus felicitas erat, quod matrem inveni adhuc spirantem, et eadem, quæ olim, …mother
  • 10… emergens, è vestigio rursum conditur. Ita Mater per hanc vacationem à suis operis, mihi …mother
  • 13… juncta Planetæ Saturno in Tauri signo; mater seorsim à me se recipiens in proximum bivium, …mother
  • 69… narrante, et auditoribus, Duracoto filio cum matre Fiolxhildi, ut erant obvolutis capitibus, ad me …mother

Relatives of English mother

The m held steady. Old English said mōdor, with a d; the th came in around 1500, as it did in father.

Drafted; not yet checked. Play Family Reunion

matrimonium

noun

marriage

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… septuagesimum plus minus annum in suo vixisset matrimonio.marriage

matrona

noun

matrons; married woman

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 15.8tormenta iam non timet delicata matrona metum persecutionis et manus cruciatusque …married woman

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.7… locabant, et seruis cenas adponebant matronae, ut domini Saturnalibus: illae, ut principio …matrons
  • 12.15… Verrius Flaccus hoc die postea constitutum, ut matronae Veneri sacrum facerent, cuius rei causam, quia …matrons

Matthias

name

Matthias

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 1… dissidia inter fratres Imp. Rudolphum et Matthiam Archiducem; eorumque actiones vulgo ad exempla …Matthias

maxime

adverb

and most; most; most of all

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.4… fortissimi et milites strenuissimi gignuntur, maximeque pius quaestus stabilissimusque consequitur …and most

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.12… Iunone potius quam iunioribus, quod illo mense maxime Iunoni honores habentur.most

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.5… quem mensem anni primum fuisse uel ex hoc maxime probatur, quod ab ipso Quintilis quintus est, …most of all
  • 12.19… Mercurii matrem mensi nomen dedisse, hinc maxime probantes, quod hoc mense mercatores omnes …most of all
  • 12.33… pulte fabacia et larido sacrificatur, quod his maxime rebus uires corporis roborentur. nam et …most of all

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 11… ex quibus unus mihi peculiariter notus, et vel maximè omnium mitis atque innoxius viginti et uno …most

medicus

noun

doctors

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 16.1… domini, an deprecantes aegros non deserant medici, an feroces uiolentiam suam conprimant, an …doctors

mediocriter

adverb

passably

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 5… Brahei, et paucarum septimanarum exercitio, ut mediocriter Danicè loquerer. Nec minùs ego promptus in …passably

meditullium

noun

the center

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 39… (quem situm obtinet apud eos, qui habitant in meditullio seu umbilico hujus Hemisphærij;) paulò minùs …the center

medium

noun

middle; the middle

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 84… catinum testo operito. videto ut bene percocas medium, ubi altissimum est. ubi coctum erit, catinum …the middle

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 4.2.35Patina de piris: pira elixa et purgata e medio teres cum pipere, cumino, melle, passo, …middle

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 39… Subvolvis verò Volva sua in ipso Cœli medio (quem situm obtinet apud eos, qui habitant in …middle

medius

adjective

middle

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 39… dolij circulo videtur adæquari; ubi in medium cœli ascenderit, vix humani vultus latitudinem …middle

medullitus

adverb

in the marrow

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.1… euiscerat, quod in faucium uulnera conceptus medullitus ignis exaestuat, quod adsiduo uomitu intestina …in the marrow

mel

noun

honey; of honey; with honey

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 76.4… item linito usque adeo, donec omne caseum cum melle abusus eris. in summum tracta singula indito, …honey
  • 76.4… bis aut ter. ubi cocta erit, eximito et melle unguito. haec erit placenta semodialis.with honey
  • 79… crebro duabus rudibus, coctos eximito, eos melle unguito, papaver infriato, ita ponito.with honey
  • 84… casei P. II S una conmisceto quasi libum, mellis P. ≡ et ovum unum. catinum fictile oleo …of honey
  • 84… est. ubi coctum erit, catinum eximito, melle unguito, papaver infriato, sub testum subde …with honey

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.1.2… per viam peregrinanti: piper tritum cum melle despumato in cupellam mittis conditi loco, et …honey
  • 1.1.2… ad momentum quantum sit bibendum, tantum aut mellis proferas aut vini misceas. sed si <maius> vas …of honey
  • 1.1.2… vini melizomo mittas, adiciendum propter mellis exitum solutiorem.of honey
  • 1.3.1… colas, et, cum ad bibendum voles uti, addito melle rosatum conficies. sane custodito ut rosam a …honey
  • 1.3.1… et de <viola> violatium facies, et eodem modo melle temperabis.honey
  • 1.3.2… quadraginta dies exime. cum necesse fuerit, mel addes et pro rosato utere.honey
  • 1.7.1… recentes sint: carnes recentes quales volueris melle tegantur, sed vas pendeat, et, quando volueris, …honey
  • 1.11.2Vt mel malum bonum facias: mel malum bonum facies ad …honey
  • 1.11.2Vt mel malum bonum facias: mel malum bonum facies ad vendendum, unam partem …honey
  • 1.11.3Mel corruptum ut probes: helenium infundes in melle …honey
  • 1.11.3Mel corruptum ut probes: helenium infundes in melle et incende: si incorruptum est, lucet.honey
  • 1.21… feniculum, omnia viridia, ligusticum, piper, mel, liquamen. si opus fuerit, acetum addes.honey
  • 4.2.35… et purgata e medio teres cum pipere, cumino, melle, passo, liquamine, oleo modico. ovis missis …honey
  • 7.13.1… infercies. sale foris contingis, frigis in melle cocto, et inferes.honey
  • 7.13.3… in lacte infundis, frigis, ex [in] oleo, mel superfundis et inferes.honey
  • 7.13.7… patinam aestimabis, temperabis lac cum melle quasi ad lactantia, ova quinque ad sextarium …honey
  • 7.13.8… una parte cum fuerit coctum, in disco vertes, melle perfundis, piper aspargis et inferes.honey
  • 7.19.3… piper, ligusticum, nucleos infusos. suffundes mel, acetum: liquamine temperabis.honey

melizomum

noun

honey mixture; to the honey mixture

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Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.1.2Conditum melizomum perpetuum, quod subministratur per viam …honey mixture
  • 1.1.2… sed si <maius> vas erit, nonnihil vini melizomo mittas, adiciendum propter mellis exitum …to the honey mixture

membratim

adverb

limb by limb

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 15… Opiatis, statim in principio sopiendus est, et membratim explicandus, ne corpus à podice, caput à …limb by limb

membrum

noun

of the limbs; limbs; of limbs

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.6… dolor et impetus febrium et omnium ualitudo membrorum cum ceteris communis est nobis, quamdiu …of the limbs
  • 12.4… amissio, sit de infestantibus morbis adsidua membrorum et cruenta uexatio, sit de uxore, de liberis, …of the limbs
  • 14.1… quod quorundam uel pedes uel aliquae membrorum partes contagio morbidae putredinis amputantur, …of the limbs

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 15… corpore gestetur, sed ut violentia in singula membra dividatur. Tunc excipit nova difficultas, …limbs
  • 16… cum expergiscuntur, queri de ineffabili membrorum omnium lassitudine; à qua serò admodum se …of limbs

memoria

noun

of memory; memory

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.1… obductos, in his quoque, qui sunt recentioris memoriae et ad cursum lunae vel solis instituti, quanta …of memory
  • 20.11… ita a Iulio Caesare ordinato ceteri ad nostram memoriam Iuliani appellantur, eique consurgunt ex quarto …memory
  • 22.16… quae nomina etiam nunc ad hanc permanent memoriam.memory

mens

noun

the mind; minds; of mind

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 5.5si fecerit, scibit in mente familiae quid sit, et illi animo aequiore …the mind

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 16.1… uidetur explorat iustitiam singulorum et mentes humani generis examinat, an infirmis seruiant …minds

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… osores artium, qui quod præ hebetudine mentis non capiunt, id calumnientur: legesque figant …of mind

mensis

noun

months; of months; with months; from months; month; in month; of the months; a month; for months; the month; in months; to the month; in the month; of the month; the months; for the months; and the months; month's; for the month

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.1… suos civiles annos varie intercalandis mensibus ad unum illum verum naturalemque corrigere.months
  • 20.2… et postea Fenestella statim ab initio duodecim mensum fuisse scripserunt: sed magis Iunio Gracchano …of months
  • 20.2… et Suetonio aliisque credendum, qui decem mensum putarunt fuisse, ut tunc Albanis erat, unde …of months
  • 20.3hi decem menses dies CCCIIII hoc modo habebant: Martius XXXI, …months
  • 20.4… sive, ut Iunius, a Tarquinio XII facti sunt menses et dies CCCLV, quamvis luna XII suis mensibus …months
  • 20.4… menses et dies CCCLV, quamvis luna XII suis mensibus CCCLIIII dies videbatur explere. sed ut dies …with months
  • 20.5… et quinquaginta dies accesserunt: qui quia menses duo non explerent, sex illis cavis mensibus …months
  • 20.5… quia menses duo non explerent, sex illis cavis mensibus dies sunt singuli detracti et ad eos additi, …from months
  • 20.5… eos additi, factique dies LVII, et ex his duo menses, Ianuarius undetriginta dierum, Februarius …months
  • 20.5… Februarius duodetriginta. adque ita omnes menses pleni et inpari dierum numero esse coeperunt, …months
  • 20.6denique cum intercalarium mensem viginti duum vel viginti trium dierum alternis …month
  • 20.6… ut civilis annus ad naturalem exaequaretur, in mense potissimum Februario inter terminalia et …month
  • 20.8… consulatu, quo retro delictum corrigeret, duos menses intercalarios dierum LXVII in mensem Novembrem …months
  • 20.8… duos menses intercalarios dierum LXVII in mensem Novembrem et Decembrem interponeret, cum iam …month
  • 20.8… Novembrem et Decembrem interponeret, cum iam mense Februario dies III et XX intercalasset, …in month
  • 20.8… futurum ne iterum erraretur: nam intercalario mense sublato annum civilem ad solis cursum formavit.month
  • 20.9… diebus CCCLV addidit decem, quos per septem menses, qui dies undetricenos habebant, ita …months
  • 20.9… ceteris singuli; eosque dies extremis partibus mensium adposuit, ne scilicet religiones sui cuiusque …of the months
  • 20.9… adposuit, ne scilicet religiones sui cuiusque mensis a loco summoverentur.month
  • 20.10quapropter nunc cum in septem mensibus dies singuli et triceni sint, quattuor tamen …months
  • 20.10… ut peracto quadrienni circuitu dies unus, ubi mensis quondam solebat, post terminalia …month
  • 22.1Mensium genera duo: nam alii sunt naturales, alii …of months
  • 22.2… partim lunae esse dicuntur. secundum solem fit mensis, dum sol unum quodque in zodiaco orbe signum …a month
  • 22.3civiles menses sunt numeri quidam dierum quos una quaeque …months
  • 22.5luna autem singulos suos menses conficit diebus undetriginta circiter et …months
  • 22.5… longiores, alias breviores. at civitatium menses vel magis numero dierum inter se discrepant, …months
  • 22.7minime videntur errasse qui ad lunae cursum menses civiles adcommodarunt, ut in Graecia plerique, …months
  • 22.7… ut in Graecia plerique, apud quos alterni menses ad tricenos dies sunt facti.months
  • 22.8… Iulius cum videret hac ratione neque ad lunam menses, ut oportebat, neque annos ad solem convenire, …months
  • 22.8… maluit annum corrigere, ut sic etiam menses civiles cum veris illis solaribus, etsi non …months
  • 22.9Nomina decem mensibus antiquis Romulum fecisse Fulvius et Iunius …for months
  • 22.10Varro autem Romanos a Latinis nomina mensum accepisse arbitratus auctores eorum antiquiores …of the months
  • 22.11itaque Martium mensem a Marte quidem nominatum credit, non quia …month
  • 22.12… maioribus, sed a Maia nomen accepisse, quod eo mense tam Romae quam antea in Latio res divina Maiae …in month
  • 22.12… a Iunone potius quam iunioribus, quod illo mense maxime Iunoni honores habentur.in month
  • 22.15in hoc autem mense Lupercalibus, cum Roma lustratur, salem calidum …month
  • 22.15… Lupercalium proprie februatus et ab eo porro mensis Februarius vocitatur.the month
  • 22.16ex his duodecim mensibus duorum tantum nomina inmutata. nam Quintilis …months
  • 22.17postea vero multi principes nomina quaedam mensium inmutaverunt suis nuncupando nominibus; quod …of months
  • 22.17… obitum eorum illa nomina pristina suis reddita mensibus.months

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.2… morem regionum, Arcades annum suum tribus mensibus explicabant, Acarnanes sex, Graeci reliqui …in months
  • 12.3… olim auctore Romulo annum suum decem habuisse mensibus ordinatum, qui annus incipiebat a Martio, et …in months
  • 12.3… diebus trecentis quattuor, ut sex quidem menses, id est Aprilis Iunius Sextilis September …months
  • 12.5Haec fuit Romuli ordinatio, qui primum anni mensem genitori suo Marti dicauit. quem mensem anni …month
  • 12.5… anni mensem genitori suo Marti dicauit. quem mensem anni primum fuisse uel ex hoc maxime probatur, …month
  • 12.6… ignis inciperet. eodem quoque ingrediente mense tam in regia curiisque atque flaminum domibus …month
  • 12.6… ueteres nouis laureis mutabantur. eodem quoque mense et publice et priuatim ad Annam Perennam …in month
  • 12.7hoc mense mercedes exsoluebant magistris, quas completus …in month
  • 12.8Secundum mensem nominauit Aprilem, ut quidam putant cum …month
  • 12.8… asserunt fuisse rationem, ut primum quidem mensem a patre suo Marte, secundum ab Aeneae matre …month
  • 12.9… certi numinis prouidentia ita primos ordinasse menses ut, cum praecedens Marti esset dicatus deo …months
  • 12.12… reliquit, ait imperite quosdam opinari Aprilem mensem antiquos a Venere dixisse, cum nullus dies …month
  • 12.12… nullumque sacrificium insigne Veneri per hunc mensem a maioribus institutum sit, sed ne in …month
  • 12.13… uel Graecum fuisse, et ideo non potuisse mensem a Venere nominari.the month
  • 12.14… contegantur, eaque omnia uerno, id est hoc mense, aperiantur, arbores quoque nec minus cetera, …in month
  • 12.14… aperire se in germen incipiant: ab his omnibus mensem Aprilem dici merito credendum est, quasi …the month
  • 12.14… sicut apud Athenienses ἀνθεστηριὼν idem mensis uocatur ab eo, quod hoc tempore cuncta …month
  • 12.16… utriusque partis hunc Maium, sequentem Iunium mensem uocasse.month
  • 12.17sunt qui hunc mensem ad nostros fastos a Tusculanis transisse …month
  • 12.18Cingius mensem nominatum putat a Maia, quam Vulcani dicit …the month
  • 12.19contendunt alii Maiam Mercurii matrem mensi nomen dedisse, hinc maxime probantes, quod hoc …to the month
  • 12.19… nomen dedisse, hinc maxime probantes, quod hoc mense mercatores omnes Maiae pariter Mercurioque …in month
  • 12.20… Cornelius Labeo consentit, hanc Maiam, cui mense Maio res diuina celebratur, terram esse hoc …in the month
  • 12.30… apud maiores quoque nostros haec appelatio mensis diu manserit, sed post detritis quibusdam …of the month
  • 12.31non nulli putauerunt Iunium mensem a Iunio Bruto, qui primus Romae consul factus …the month
  • 12.31… Romae consul factus est, nominatum, quod hoc mense, id est Kalendis Iuniis, pulso Tarquinio sacrum …in month
  • 12.33… Iuniae fabariae uulgo uocantur, quia hoc mense adultae fabae diuinis rebus adhibentur.in month
  • 12.34… filio consule, Iulius appellatus est, quod hoc mense a. d. quartum Idus Quintilis Iulius procreatus …in month
  • 12.35… uerba subieci: cum imperator Caesar Augustus mense Sextili et primum consulatum inierit, et …in the month
  • 12.35… eius auspicia ac fidem, sed et Aegyptus hoc mense in potestatem populi Romani redacta sit, …in month
  • 12.35… populi Romani redacta sit, finisque hoc mense bellis ciuilibus inpositus sit, atque ob has …in month
  • 12.35… inpositus sit, atque ob has causas hic mensis huic imperio felicissimus sit ac fuerit, …month
  • 12.35… sit ac fuerit, placere senatui ut hic mensis Augustus appelletur. item plebiscitum factum ob …month
  • 12.36Mensis September principalem sui retinet …the month
  • 12.37… uocabulum ex omni aere uel saxo placuit eradi, menses quoque usurpatione tyrannicae appellationis …the months
  • 12.37… ceterorum, diri ominis infausta uitantium, mensibus a Septembri usque ad Decembrem prisca nomina …for the months
  • 12.38… qui, sicut iam supra diximus, annum decem mensium, dierum uero quattuor et trecentorum habendum …of months
  • 12.38… et trecentorum habendum esse constituit, mensesque ita disposuit, ut quattuor ex his tricenos …and the months
  • 12.39… numquam usu ueniebat, ut frigus anni aestiuis mensibus et contra calor hiemalibus proueniret, quod ubi …in months
  • 12.39… quod ubi contigisset, tantum dierum sine ullo mensis nomine patiebantur absumi, quantum ad id anni …month's
  • 12.39… tempus adduceret, quo caeli habitus instanti mensi aptus inueniretur.for the month
  • 13.2… additis adiecit alios sex, retractos illis sex mensibus, qui triginta habebant dies, id est de singulis …months
  • 13.2… quinquaginta et sex dies in duos nouos menses pari ratione diuisit,months
  • 13.3… anni esse uoluit, tamquam bicipitis dei mensem respicientem ac prospicientem transacti anni …the month
  • 13.3… potens creditur. lustrari autem eo mense ciuitatem necesse erat, quo statuit ut iusta …in month
  • 13.4… finitimi mox secuti totidem diebus totidemque mensibus, ut Pompilio placuit, annum suum computare …months
  • 13.4… coeperunt, sed hoc solo discrepabant, quod menses undetricenum tricenumque numero alternauerunt.the months
  • 13.5… quem Ianuario dedit, ut tam in anno quam in mensibus singulis praeter unum Februarium impar numerus …months
  • 13.5… impar numerus seruaretur. nam quia duodecim menses, si singuli aut pari aut impari numero …months
  • 13.8… computarent, necessario et intercalarem mensem instituerunt more Graecorum.month
  • 13.14omni autem intercalationi mensis Februarius deputatus est, quoniam is ultimus …the month
  • 13.14… faciebant. nam et illi ultimo anni sui mensi superfluos interserebant dies, ut refert …month
  • 13.15nam illi confecto ultimo mense, Romani non confecto Februario sed post …the month
  • 13.15… iam peractis. deinde reliquos Februarii mensis dies, qui erant quinque, post intercalationem …of the month
  • 14.6… ut quarto quoque anno sacerdotes, qui curabant mensibus ac diebus, unum intercalarent diem, eo scilicet …the months
  • 14.6… diebus, unum intercalarent diem, eo scilicet mense ac loco, quo etiam apud ueteres mensis …in month
  • 14.6… scilicet mense ac loco, quo etiam apud ueteres mensis intercalabatur, id est ante quinque ultimos …the month
  • 14.6… id est ante quinque ultimos Februarii mensis dies, idque bissextum censuit nominandum.of the month
  • 14.7… Septembrem Nouembrem singulos, sed neque mensi Februario addidit diem, ne deum inferum religio …to the month
  • 14.12nam ideo nouos dies circa finem cuiusque mensis inseruit, ubi finem omnium, quae in mense …month
  • 14.12… mensis inseruit, ubi finem omnium, quae in mense erant, repperit feriarum, adiectosque omnes a …the month

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 10… illæ nostræ longæ, quippè Natalitio Christi mense Sol in Meridie vix parum emergens, è vestigio …in the month
  • 24… Nox et dies juncti, æquant unum ex nostratibus mensibus: quippè Sole orituro manè, integrum ferè …months
  • 35… immensus æstus. Atque sic spacio nostratis mensis, seu diei LEVANICI, uno eodemque loco et æstus …month

menta

noun

mint Drafted; not yet checked.

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Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.21Moretaria: mentam, rutam, coriandrum, feniculum, omnia viridia, …mint

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  1. Latin · about 400menta · mint
  2. Old English · about 1000minte · mint
  3. Middle English · about 1390mynt · mint
  4. English todaymint

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mercator

noun

trader; merchants

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.3mercatorem autem strenuum studiosumque rei quaerendae …trader

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.19… dedisse, hinc maxime probantes, quod hoc mense mercatores omnes Maiae pariter Mercurioque sacrificant.merchants

mercatura

noun

by trade

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.1Est interdum praestare mercaturis rem quaerere, nisi tam periculosum sit, et item …by trade

mercennarius

noun

hired man

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 5.4rationem cum domino crebro putet. operarium, mercennarium, politorem diutius eundem ne habeat die. nequid …hired man

merces

noun

fees; reward

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 17.3… te paratam fuisse uirtutem reddit pro uirtute mercedem.reward

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.7hoc mense mercedes exsoluebant magistris, quas completus annus …fees

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 1… in vitâ suâ; & ideo post mortem ipsius pro mercede suâ omnia ejus bona confiscantur, possessiones …reward

Mercurius

name

to Mercury; of Mercury; and to Mercury; Mercury

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.12… quam antea in Latio res divina Maiae fit et Mercurio. Iunium quoque a Iunone potius quam iunioribus, …to Mercury

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.19contendunt alii Maiam Mercurii matrem mensi nomen dedisse, hinc maxime …of Mercury
  • 12.19… quod hoc mense mercatores omnes Maiae pariter Mercurioque sacrificant.and to Mercury
  • 12.20… mactatur, quae hostia propria est terrae. et Mercurium ideo illi in sacris adiungi dicunt, quia uox …Mercury
  • 12.20… homini terrae contactu datur: scimus autem Mercurium uocis et sermonis potentem.Mercury

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 37… hoc peculiare est, ut digressiones Veneris et Mercurij à Sole observent multo majores quàm nos. Ijsdem …of Mercury

mereor

verb

you deserve

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 17.2… nec potes te dicere perdidisse quod nescis an merearis accipere.you deserve

meridies

noun

the south; midday

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.3si poteris, sub radice montis siet, in meridiem spectet, loco salubri, operariorum copia siet, …the south

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 10… longæ, quippè Natalitio Christi mense Sol in Meridie vix parum emergens, è vestigio rursum conditur. …midday

merito

adverb

rightly

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 20.1… occasionem dandam non esse gentilibus, ut nos merito ac iure reprehendant, quod quos uiuere aput …rightly

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.14… incipiant: ab his omnibus mensem Aprilem dici merito credendum est, quasi Aperilem, sicut apud …rightly

metuo

verb

are feared

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 17… deficere. Hinc evenit, ut defectus Solis adeò metuantur.are feared

metus

noun

fear; from fear

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 15.8tormenta iam non timet delicata matrona metum persecutionis et manus cruciatusque carnificis …fear
  • 15.9… ‖307‖ fortiore colligitur pugnaturus sine metu mortis, cum proelium uenerit, qui ad militiam …fear
  • 16.1… furentis insatiabilem semper ardorem uel metu mortis extinguant, an ceruicem flectant …from fear

meus

article or determiner

my; of my

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 13.2datus est mihi, inquit, stimulus carnis meae, angelus satanae qui me colafizet ut non …my
  • 13.3… a me, et dixit mihi: sufficit tibi gratia mea.my
  • 17.1… me corde et plena uirtute deuoueram martyrio meo priuor, dum morte praeuenior’.my

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… fuerint absorpti. Quod nomen esset patri meo, ipsa nunquam dixit, piscatorem fuisse, et …my
  • 5… quippè insueta mirabar, multa mirantibus ex mea patriâ nova recensebam.my
  • 9… acquisitam scientiam; emergere ad aliquam in mea gente rudi dignitatem. Salutato igitur patrono, …my
  • 10Prima mei reditus felicitas erat, quod matrem inveni …of my
  • 10… comparare quæ ipsa habebat comperta, cum meis narratis, exclamare jam se promptam esse ad …my

miles

noun

soldiers; soldier

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.4at ex agricolis et viri fortissimi et milites strenuissimi gignuntur, maximeque pius quaestus …soldiers

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 12.6gubernator in tempestate dinoscitur, in acie miles probatur.soldier

mīlia (passuum)

thousands (of paces) Drafted; not yet checked.

On the way to English mile

  1. Latin · 77 CEmīlia (passuum) · thousands (of paces)
  2. Old English · about 890mīl · mile
  3. Middle English · about 1390myle · mile
  4. English todaymile

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miliarium

noun

of miles

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 14Quinquaginta millibus miliarium Germanicorum in ætheris profundo sita est …of miles

militia

noun

military service

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 15.9… sine metu mortis, cum proelium uenerit, qui ad militiam tempore mortalitatis accedit.military service

mille

number

thousand

In the library

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 14Quinquaginta millibus miliarium Germanicorum in ætheris profundo sita …thousand

millesimus

adjective

thousandth

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 21.6… Pii et Pontiani consulatus, ab olympiade prima millensimus est et quartus decimus, ex diebus dumtaxat …thousandth

millesimus trecentesimus quadragesimus nonus

number

1349

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 6… dato ad Archidiaconum Roff. mandato anno MCCCXLIX. die xxvii. Junii, sub poenâ suspensionis & …1349

minae

noun

threats

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 15.6… cum gloria sua uirgines uenientes antichristi minas et corruptelas et lupanaria non timentes.threats

minime

adverb

and least; least

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • pr.4… pius quaestus stabilissimusque consequitur minimeque invidiosus, minimeque male cogitantes sunt qui …and least
  • pr.4… consequitur minimeque invidiosus, minimeque male cogitantes sunt qui in eo studio occupati …and least

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.7minime videntur errasse qui ad lunae cursum menses …least

minimus

adjective

least

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 20.1Nobis quoque ipsis minimis et extremis quotiens reuelatum est, quam …least

ministerium

noun

service

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 4… iv. Sacerdotes, v. Scutiferos, x. homines de ministerio, vii. Clericos juvenes, & vi. pagetos perdidit; …service

minus

adverb

less; or less

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 5.5… et illi animo aequiore facient. si hoc faciet, minus libebit ambulare et valebit rectius et dormibit …less

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.7… anni magnitudine in lucro damnove esset, plus minusve ex libidine intercalando rem sibi ad …or less

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.14… est hoc mense, aperiantur, arbores quoque nec minus cetera, quae continet terra, aperire se in …less
  • 12.34… Quintilis a numero uocaretur, nihilo minus tamen etiam post praepositos a Numa Ianuarium …less

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… annum agente, cùm ille septuagesimum plus minus annum in suo vixisset matrimonio.less
  • 5… exercitio, ut mediocriter Danicè loquerer. Nec minùs ego promptus in narrando, quàm illi erant in …less
  • 24… lucet, montes circulo circumiens. Nec enim minùs Levania suis incolis immota stare videtur, …less
  • 35… dies, quatuordecim nostros longa, vel eo paulò minus, quibus et Sol major, et sub fixis tardus, et …less
  • 39… seu umbilico hujus Hemisphærij;) paulò minùs quadruplo longiori diametro cernitur, quàm …less

mirabilis

adjective

marvels; wonderful

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 2… apud Hallynges & Trottisclive, sollicitus de mirabilibus mundi; & Ordines celebravit in utroque loco …marvels

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 7… exercitia; quippè Studiosi et Braheus, mirabilibus machinis totis noctibus intendebant Lunæ …wonderful

miror

verb

I marveled at; to them marveling

In the library

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 5… illi erant in quærendo. Multa quippè insueta mirabar, multa mirantibus ex mea patriâ nova …I marveled at
  • 5… quærendo. Multa quippè insueta mirabar, multa mirantibus ex mea patriâ nova recensebam.to them marveling

mirus

adjective

surprising; wonderful

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.3non igitur mirum in hac uarietate Romanos quoque olim auctore …surprising

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 7Mirum in modum mihi arridebant Astronomica exercitia; …wonderful
  • 12… velim spectatorem fieri, me comite: valdè enim mira sunt, quæ de ea narrat. Levaniam indigitavit.wonderful

misceo

verb

you mix; mix

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 79… sic facito. caseum cum alica ad eundem modum misceto. inde quantos voles facere facito. in ahenum …mix

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.1.2… bibendum, tantum aut mellis proferas aut vini misceas. sed si <maius> vas erit, nonnihil vini …you mix
  • 1.11.2… unam partem mali et duas boni si simul miscueris.you mix

misereor

verb

pity

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 16.1… sani, an propinqui cognatos pie diligant, an misereantur seruorum languentium domini, an deprecantes …pity

missa

noun

of Masses

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 7… dedit annuatim unum Annuale vel alium Missarum numerum, pro quibus aequalia debeantur …of Masses

mitis

adjective

mild

In the library

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 11… mihi peculiariter notus, et vel maximè omnium mitis atque innoxius viginti et uno characteribus …mild

mitto

verb

you put; you should put; you will put; put in

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Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.1.2… piper tritum cum melle despumato in cupellam mittis conditi loco, et ad momentum quantum sit …you put
  • 1.1.2… si <maius> vas erit, nonnihil vini melizomo mittas, adiciendum propter mellis exitum solutiorem.you should put
  • 1.3.1… tollis, et alias sutiles recentes similiter mittis, ut per dies septem in vino requiescant, et …you put
  • 1.3.1… custodito ut rosam a rore siccam et optimam mittas. Similiter, ut supra, et de <viola> violatium …you should put
  • 1.3.2… viridia in sportella palmea in dolium musti mittes antequam ferveat, et post quadraginta dies …you will put
  • 1.5… factum vel ovorum trium alborem in lagonam mittis et diutissime agitas: alia die erit candidum. …you put
  • 1.12.1… et aquam pluvialem ad tertias decoques, et mittis in vas, in quo et uvas mittis. vas picari et …you put
  • 1.12.1… decoques, et mittis in vas, in quo et uvas mittis. vas picari et gypsari facies, et in locum …you put
  • 4.2.9… accipies rosas et exfoliabis: album tolles, mittes in mortarium, suffundes liquamen, fricabis. …you will put
  • 4.2.9… suffundes liquamen, fricabis. postea mittes liquaminis cyathum unum semis, et sucum per …you will put
  • 4.2.9… ex suco, fricabis. postea ova VIII frangis, <mittis> vini cyathum unum semis et passi cyathum unum, …you put
  • 4.2.9… cineri calido, et sic impensam supra scriptam mittes. cum cocta fuerit in thermospodio, piperis …you will put
  • 4.2.35… melle, passo, liquamine, oleo modico. ovis missis patinam facies, piper super asparges et …put in
  • 5.3.1… porrum, coriandrum et cuminum supra mittis. teres piper, ligusticum, [careum hoc est …you put
  • 5.3.1… cum ferbuerit, agitabis. si quid defuerit, mittis et inferes.you put
  • 7.13.7… quasi ad lactantia, ova quinque ad sextarium mittis, si ad heminam, ova tria. in lacte dissolvis …you put

modicus

adjective

a little; small

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Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 4.2.9… cyathum unum semis et passi cyathum unum, olei modicum. postea patinam perunges et eam impones cineri …a little
  • 4.2.35… pipere, cumino, melle, passo, liquamine, oleo modico. ovis missis patinam facies, piper super …a little
  • 7.13.8… facias. in patellam subtilem adicies olei modicum, facies ut bulliat, et adicies impensam quam …a little

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 4Episcopus Roffensis de modicâ familiâ suâ iv. Sacerdotes, v. Scutiferos, x. …small

modo

adverb

only; now

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How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.11… etiam si qui decemmenstres fuerunt, nec Romae modo vel per Italiam, sed et aput gentes omnes, …only

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 14.1… uel imminui consulto anni dies uolebant, modo auctio modo retractio dierum proueniebat, et …now
  • 14.1… consulto anni dies uolebant, modo auctio modo retractio dierum proueniebat, et sub specie …now

modus

noun

way; measure; in way; manner; sort

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 2.1… non eodem die, at postridie. ubi cognovit, quo modo fundus cultus siet operaque quae facta …way
  • 5.1… siquis quid deliquerit, pro noxa bono modo vindicet.measure
  • 75Libum hoc modo facito. casei P. II bene disterat in mortario. …way
  • 79Globos sic facito. caseum cum alica ad eundem modum misceto. inde quantos voles facere facito. in …way
  • 84Savillum hoc modo facito. farinae selibram, casei P. II S una …way

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 20.3hi decem menses dies CCCIIII hoc modo habebant: Martius XXXI, Aprilis XXX, Maius …in way

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.3.1… et de <viola> violatium facies, et eodem modo melle temperabis.way

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.2Anni certus modus apud solos semper Aegyptios fuit. aliarum …measure
  • 13.15… religionis suae more, ut Februarium omni modo Martius consequeretur.in way

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 7Mirum in modum mihi arridebant Astronomica exercitia; quippè …way
  • 11… omnem à primis initiis repetijt, in hunc ferè modum? Prospectum est Duracote fili, non cæteris …manner
  • 11… vel ex libris hausisti, eodem quo tu modo, mihi recensuit.way
  • 13… blæsæ et obtusæ vocis; et statim in hunc modum, sed idiomate Islandico, infit.manner
  • 15… comites habeamus. Ergò hominem aliquem hujus modi agminatim invadimus, omnesque subtus nitentes, …sort

moles

noun

mass

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 15… solo ferè nutu transportamus, adeò ut denique moles corporea sponte suâ vergat in locum propositum. …mass
  • 56… illustrat, et à frigore custodit. Tanta quippe moles, tantus splendor, non potest non calefacere.mass

molestus

adjective

troublesome

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 57Vicissim etsi dies apud Subvolvas molestam habeat Solis præsentiam per nostra 15. vel 16. …troublesome

molitio

noun

heave

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 15… nitentes, in altum eum tollimus. Prima quæque molitio durissima ipsi accidit. Nec enim aliter …heave

mollis

adjective

soft

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 76.1… L. II. alicam in aquam infundito. ubi bene mollis erit, in mortarium purum indito siccatoque …soft

momentum

noun

moment; in a moment

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Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.1.2… in cupellam mittis conditi loco, et ad momentum quantum sit bibendum, tantum aut mellis …moment

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 11… uno characteribus evocatur. Cujus ope non rarò momento temporis in alias oras, quas ipsi dixero, …in a moment

monachus

noun

monks

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 15… Roffensi tanta fuit victualium inopia, quòd Monachi ad triturandum panem suum sunt coacti. Prior …monks

monasterium

noun

monastery; monasteries

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 15Praeterea in Monasterio Roffensi tanta fuit victualium inopia, quòd …monastery
  • 17Episcopus Roffensis Abbatias & Monasteria de Liesnes & Mallyng visitans, invenit ea ita …monasteries

moneo

verb

warning

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 19.3increpantis uox et monentis, qui de persecutione sollicitus, de …warning

Monēta

name

Moneta; Moneta, a title of Juno; her temple held Rome's mint

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Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.30… Iunonio Iunius dictus sit. nam et aedes Iunoni Monetae Kalend. Iuniis dedicata est.Moneta

On the way to English money

  1. Latin · early 400sMonēta · Moneta, a title of Juno; her temple held Rome's mint
  2. Middle English · about 1390moneye · money
  3. Early Modern English · 1623monie · money
  4. English todaymoney

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monialis

noun

nuns

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 5… nisi iv. Professae & quatuor non professae Moniales; de quibus Episcopus uni spiritualia alteri …nuns

mons

noun

of a mountain; hill; of mount; mountains

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.3si poteris, sub radice montis siet, in meridiem spectet, loco salubri, …of a mountain

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.31… pulso Tarquinio sacrum Carnae deae in Caelio monte uoti reus fecerit. hanc deam uitalibus humanis …hill

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 3… crebrò adducere est solita in humiliora juga, montis Heclæ, præsertim circa festum divi Joannis, …of mount
  • 15… torquetur ac si pulvere Bombardico excussus, montes et maria tranaret. Proptereà Narcoticis et …mountains
  • 24… noctis, Sol dimidius tegitur, dimidius lucet, montes circulo circumiens. Nec enim minùs Levania suis …mountains
  • 39… Volva Horizonti perpetuo inhæret, ijs eminus montis igniti speciem exhibet.of a mountain

mora

noun

delay; a stay; [there was] delay

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.7mori timeat cui hoc mora longiore confertur, ut cruciatus eius et …delay

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 2Toto hoc tempore Episcopus Roffensis moram fecit apud Hallynges & Trottisclive, sollicitus …a stay

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 13Nec mora consentio, ut Magistrum illa suum accersat, et …[there was] delay

morbidus

adjective

diseased

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.1… pedes uel aliquae membrorum partes contagio morbidae putredinis amputantur, quod per iacturas et …diseased

morbosus

adjective

sickly

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 2.7… vetus, ferramenta vetera, servum senem, servum morbosum, et siquid aliut supersit, vendat. patrem …sickly

morbus

noun

of disease; diseases

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.1… mouet quod aequaliter cum gentilibus nostros morbi istius ualitudo corripiat: quasi ad hoc …of disease
  • 12.4… rei familiaris amissio, sit de infestantibus morbis adsidua membrorum et cruenta uexatio, sit de …diseases

moretarium

noun

herb sauces

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Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.21Moretaria: mentam, rutam, coriandrum, feniculum, omnia …herb sauces

morior

verb

to die; die; of dying; about to die; dying; dead

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.3mori plane timeat, sed qui ex aqua et spiritu non …to die
  • 14.4mori timeat qui non Christi cruce et passione …to die
  • 14.5mori timeat qui ad secundam mortem de hac morte …to die
  • 14.6mori timeat quem de saeculo recedentem perennibus …to die
  • 14.7mori timeat cui hoc mora longiore confertur, ut …to die
  • 15.1Multi ex nostris in hac mortalitate moriuntur, hoc est multi ex nostris de saeculo …die
  • 15.3… ullo discrimine generis humani cum iniustis moriuntur et iusti, non est quod putetis malis et bonis …die
  • 15.8… persecutionis et manus cruciatusque carnificis moriendi celeritate lucrata.of dying
  • 16.1… diuites largiantur et donent sine herede morituri.about to die
  • 19.1… precaretur, adstitit deprecanti et iam paene morienti iuuenis honore et maiestate uenerabilis, statu …dying
  • 19.4audiuit frater noster et collega moriturus quod ceteris diceret.about to die
  • 19.5nam qui moriturus audiuit, ad hoc audiuit ut diceret: audiuit non …about to die

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… dixêre: mater erat Fiolxhildis, quæ nuper mortua, scribendi mihi peperit licentiam, cujus rei …dead
  • 10… narratis, exclamare jam se promptam esse ad moriendum, ut quæ scientiæ suæ, quam solam possideret, …dying

moror

verb

stayed

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 14… Roffensis senex & decrepitus apud Trottisclyve morabatur, languens & dolens de subitâ mutatione saeculi; …stayed

mors

noun

of death; death; by death

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.2contra tot inpetus uastitatis et mortis inconcussis animi uirtutibus congredi quanta …of death
  • 14.5mori timeat qui ad secundam mortem de hac morte transibit.death
  • 14.5mori timeat qui ad secundam mortem de hac morte transibit.death
  • 15.9… ‖307‖ fortiore colligitur pugnaturus sine metu mortis, cum proelium uenerit, qui ad militiam tempore …of death
  • 16.1… furentis insatiabilem semper ardorem uel metu mortis extinguant, an ceruicem flectant superbi, an …of death
  • 16.2… quod martyrium coepimus libenter adpetere, dum mortem discimus non timere.death
  • 16.3… dant animo fortitudinis gloriam, contemptu mortis praeparant ad coronam.of death
  • 17.1… uirtute deuoueram martyrio meo priuor, dum morte praeuenior’.by death
  • 19.1… infirmitate defessus et de adpropinquante morte sollicitus commeatum sibi precaretur, adstitit …death

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 1… principalis in vitâ suâ; & ideo post mortem ipsius pro mercede suâ omnia ejus bona …death
  • 8Post mortem Archiepiscopi Papa ad preces Domini Regis M. …death
  • 10… Roffensis Dioceseos oriundum, quem mox post mortem Archiepiscopi elegerant, secundò nunc …death

mortalis

adjective

mortal

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.5… corruptiuum istud induat incorruptionem, et mortale hoc accipiat inmortalitatem, et spiritus nos …mortal

mortalitas

noun

mortality; of mortality; of the mortality

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.2mouet quosdam quod sit nobis cum ceteris mortalitas ista communis.mortality
  • 12.2qui filium non potes lege et sorte mortalitatis amittere, quid faceres, si filium iubereris …of mortality
  • 15.1Multi ex nostris in hac mortalitate moriuntur, hoc est multi ex nostris de saeculo …mortality
  • 15.2mortalitas ista Iudaeis et gentibus et Christi hostibus …mortality
  • 15.9pauore mortalitatis et temporis accenduntur trepidi, constringuntur …of the mortality
  • 15.9… cum proelium uenerit, qui ad militiam tempore mortalitatis accedit.of the mortality
  • 16.2ut nihil aliud mortalitas ista contulerit, hoc christianis et Dei seruis …mortality
  • 17.1… opponat et dicat: ‘hoc me ergo in praesenti mortalitate contristat quod qui paratus ad confessionem …mortality

Looks like English mortality

It means much the same. Mortālitās is the state of being mortal, and so death and dying; Cyprian uses it for the deaths of the plague. English mortality means both.

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mortarium

noun

mortar; a mortar; the mortar

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 75… hoc modo facito. casei P. II bene disterat in mortario. ubi bene distriverit, farinae siligineae …mortar
  • 76.1… in aquam infundito. ubi bene mollis erit, in mortarium purum indito siccatoque bene. deinde manibus …a mortar
  • 76.4… in totum solum primum ponito, deinde de mortario tracta linito, tracta addito singulatim, item …the mortar

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 4.2.9… rosas et exfoliabis: album tolles, mittes in mortarium, suffundes liquamen, fricabis. postea mittes …mortar

mos

noun

custom; by the custom; by custom; in the way; in the manner

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Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.2… et ut contentus sim referendo paucarum morem regionum, Arcades annum suum tribus mensibus …custom
  • 13.8… necessario et intercalarem mensem instituerunt more Graecorum.by the custom
  • 13.15… subiungebant, credo uetere religionis suae more, ut Februarium omni modo Martius consequeretur.by custom

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 10… electio ad Papam pervenit, Papa M. Thomae more solito dedit Archiepiscopatum Cant. malens …in the way

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 19… ut de ipsius provinciæ forma dicam, exorsus, more Geographorum, ab ijs, quæ cœlitùs illi …in the manner

motus

noun

motions

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 20… aspectus tota Levania habet nobiscum eosdem; motus tamen Planetarum et quantitates, ab ijs, quas …motions

moveo

verb

troubles; is moved

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The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.1At enim quosdam mouet quod aequaliter cum gentilibus nostros morbi …troubles
  • 8.2mouet quosdam quod sit nobis cum ceteris mortalitas …troubles
  • 12.8… radice fundata est uentis incumbentibus non mouetur et nauis quae forti conpage solidata est …is moved

mox

adverb

soon

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Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 13.4Numae ordinationem finitimi mox secuti totidem diebus totidemque mensibus, ut …soon

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 5Apud Mallinges fecit duas Abbatissas; & mox obierunt. Nec remanserunt ibidem nisi iv. …soon
  • 10… de Condennâ Roffensis Dioceseos oriundum, quem mox post mortem Archiepiscopi elegerant, secundò …soon

mucro

noun

with point

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 17… agminibus in umbram exspaciamur, et si illa mucrone suo, quod plerumque fit, Tellurem feriat, …with point

mulgēre

Relatives of English milk

The Latin and Greek words mean "to milk." g became k in English.

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multo

adverb

much

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The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 37… Veneris et Mercurij à Sole observent multo majores quàm nos. Ijsdem et Venus certis …much

multum

adverb

long

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The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 8… & presentavit, & totam perdidit; quia non multùm pòst vixit, sed die Ascensionis Domini obiit, & …long

multus

adjective

very many; whether many; much; plentiful; many; to many; many things

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How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.4… cum venies, videto, vasa torcula et dolia multane sient: ubi non erunt, scito pro ratione fructum …whether many
  • 1.6… siet, si sumptuosus erit, relinqui non multum. praedium quod primum siet, si me rogabis, sic …much
  • 1.6… agri centum, vinea est prima, si vino bono et multo est, secundo loco hortus inriguus, tertio …plentiful
  • 2.2… publicum effecisse, ubi eas aliasque causas multas dixit, ad rationem operum operarumque vilicum …many

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 21.13… ortu vergiliarum, nonnullis ab earum occasu, multis a canis exortu incipere annus naturalis …to many
  • 22.17postea vero multi principes nomina quaedam mensium inmutaverunt …many

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 13.1… post flagella, post carnis et corporis multa et grauia tormenta non uexari sed ‖305‖ …many
  • 15.1Multi ex nostris in hac mortalitate moriuntur, hoc …many
  • 15.1… nostris in hac mortalitate moriuntur, hoc est multi ex nostris de saeculo liberantur.many

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.3.1… lino inseris et sutilis facias, et vino quam plurimas infundes, ut septem diebus in vino sint. post …very many

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 8… sepultus, electus non consecratus; & sic multos creditores depauperando destruxit.many

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 2… diligenter egit, ne scriberem. Dicebat enim, multos esse perniciosos osores artium, qui quod præ …many
  • 3… relinquit locum. Ipsa herbas nonnullas legens multis cæremoniis, domique coquens, sacculos …many
  • 5… Braheus valdè exhilaratus, cepit ex me multa quærere; quæ ego linguæ imperitus non …many things
  • 5… in narrando, quàm illi erant in quærendo. Multa quippè insueta mirabar, multa mirantibus ex mea …many things
  • 5… in quærendo. Multa quippè insueta mirabar, multa mirantibus ex mea patriâ nova recensebam.many things
  • 17Multæ prætereà occurrunt difficultates, quas longum …many

munditia

noun

cleaning

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 2.3… virgas vinciri, spinas runcari, expinsi far, munditias fieri. cum servi aegrotarint, cibaria tanta …cleaning

mundus

noun

the world; world; of the world

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 8.1… christianus, ut immunis a contactu malorum mundo et saeculo feliciter perfruatur et non hic …the world
  • 8.3quid enim nobis in hoc mundo non commune cum ceteris, quamdiu adhuc secundum …world
  • 8.4quoadusque istic in mundo sumus, cum genere humano carnis aequalitate …world

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 2… & Trottisclive, sollicitus de mirabilibus mundi; & Ordines celebravit in utroque loco certis …of the world

The Dream: a journey to the Moon Johannes Kepler, Somnium, published by his son Ludwig Kepler (Sagan and Frankfurt, 1634) · Written in Prague about 1609; notes added 1620–30; published 1634

  • 22… instar nostri coluri solstitiorum, per polos mundi transit, appellaturque Divisor.of the world

munio

verb

to be repaired

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 2.3… potuisse fossas veteres tergeri, viam publicam muniri, vepres recidi, hortum fodiri, pratum purgari, …to be repaired

munus

noun

gift

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 14.2… prostratum et gratulari magis et temporis munus amplecti, quod dum nostram fidem firmiter …gift

murmuro

verb

grumble

In the library

The Plague as a Test: A Bishop's Sermon at Carthage Cyprian, "On the Mortality" (De mortalitate), sections 8–20 · c. 252–253 (during the epidemic at Carthage)

  • 13.6… nesciunt, quod illi in aduersis queruntur et murmurant, nos aduersa non auocant a uirtutis et fidei …grumble

mūs

Relatives of English mouse

Almost no change in four thousand years, apart from the vowel.

Drafted; not yet checked. Play Family Reunion

Musa

name

of the Muses

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.16… Nobilior in fastis, quos in aede Herculis Musarum posuit, Romulum dicit, postquam populum in …of the Muses

mūsica

music Drafted; not yet checked.

On the way to English music

  1. Ancient Greek · 300s BCEμουσική mousikḗ · the art of the Muses: music and poetry
  2. Latin · about 500mūsica · music
  3. Early Modern English · 1623musicke · music
  4. English todaymusic

Drafted; not yet checked against the dictionaries. Play Word Passport

mustum

noun

of must

In the library

Roman recipes Apicius, De re coquinaria, books 1, 4, 5 and 7, in the edition of C. Giarratano and F. Vollmer (Leipzig, 1922) · Compiled about 300–500 from older recipes; the surviving manuscripts were copied in the 800s

  • 1.3.2… citri viridia in sportella palmea in dolium musti mittes antequam ferveat, et post quadraginta …of must

mutatio

noun

change

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 14… morabatur, languens & dolens de subitâ mutatione saeculi; quia in omnibus Maneriis Episcopatûs …change

muto

verb

change; changed; were exchanged

In the library

How to run a farm Cato the Elder, On Farming (mid-second century BCE), in the edition of Georg Goetz after Heinrich Keil (Leipzig, 1922) · mid-second century BCE, late in Cato’s life

  • 1.4siet in his agris, qui non saepe dominos mutant: qui in his agris praedia vendiderint, eos …change

How the Romans fixed the year Censorinus, On the Birthday 20–22 (238 CE), in the edition of Friedrich Hultsch (Leipzig, 1867) · 238 CE

  • 22.17… nuncupando nominibus; quod aut ipsi postmodum mutaverunt, aut post obitum eorum illa nomina pristina …changed

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.6… flaminum domibus laureae ueteres nouis laureis mutabantur. eodem quoque mense et publice et priuatim ad …were exchanged

mutuor

verb

borrowing

In the library

The Plague in the Bishop of Rochester’s Household William Dene (attributed), History of the Church of Rochester, printed in Henry Wharton’s Anglia Sacra (1691) · soon after the events of 1348–1349

  • 8… & paralitico; qui pecuniam magnam undique mutuans ad magnam summam, inutiliter Papam eam …borrowing

μιαιφόνος

adjective

blood-stained

In the library

Where the months got their names Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12–14 (early fifth century CE), in the edition of Franz Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1893) · early fifth century CE; the dialogue is set in the 380s

  • 12.9… naturae conscius ait Ἆρες Ἄρες βροτολοιγὲ μιαιφόνε τειχεσιβλῆτα secundus Veneri dicaretur, quae …blood-stained