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Headword | Dictionaries | Max. Inst. | Min. Inst. | # Documents | Short Definition |
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Cuba | Lewis & Short | 34 | 14 | 9 | the goddess who protects the lying down of children |
Cunina | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | the goddess who protects children in the cradle |
Edusa | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | the goddess that presides over children's food |
Fabulinus | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a deity that helped children learning to talk |
Medea | Lewis & Short | 212 | 166 | 76 | a celebrated sorceress, daughter of Æetes, king of Colchis. She assisted her lover, Jason the Argonaut, in obtaining the golden fleece, accompanied him to Greece, and prevented her father, who was in pursuit, from overtaking them, by strewing the sea with |
Megara3 | Lewis & Short | 297 | 0 | 28 | wife of Hercules, whom, in his madness, he destroyed, together with her children |
Orbona | Lewis & Short | 2 | 2 | 2 | the tutelary goddess of parents bereft of their children |
Paventia | Lewis & Short | 4 | 0 | 2 | the goddess who guarded children against sudden terrors |
Pontia | Lewis & Short | 54 | 0 | 15 | a woman notorious as the poisoner of her own children |
Pontia2 | Lewis & Short | 54 | 0 | 15 | an island in the Tuscan Sea |
Potica | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | the goddess of drinking among children |
Potina | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | the goddess that presides over children's drinking |
Statanus | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | the deity who presided over the standing of children |
armamaxa | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 2 | 2 | 2 | a covered Persian chariot (esp. for women and children), Cu. |
consul | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 18,558 | 7,182 | 326 | a consul |
curotrophoe | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | nourishing children |
germanitas | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 22 | 22 | 15 | the relation between children of the same parents, brotherhood, sisterhood |
hereditas | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 827 | 257 | 93 | heirship, inheritance |
hermesias | Lewis & Short | 2 | 2 | 1 | a kind of medical composition for children |
illiberis | Lewis & Short | 1 | 1 | 1 | without children |
infirmitas | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 317 | 317 | 74 | want of strength, weakness, feebleness |
lacteo | Lewis & Short | 1,280 | 100 | 209 | sucking children, sucklings |
liberi | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 8,923 | 0 | 231 | free persons |
militaris | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 3,115 | 139 | 131 | of a soldier, of war |
necessitudo | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 322 | 322 | 63 | necessity, compulsion, inevitableness, want, need, distress |
orbator | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 2 | 2 | 2 | one who deprives of children, a bereaver |
paedagogus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 99 | 43 | 30 | a governor, preceptor, pedagogue (a slave to guide and attend children) |
pango | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 107 | 107 | 69 | to fasten, make fast, fix, drive in |
privignus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 116 | 104 | 43 | a step-son |
prognatus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 74 | 74 | 56 | born, descended, sprung |
proles | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 1,390 | 1,390 | 482 | a growth, offshoot, offspring, progeny, children, descendants, race, posterity |
puellatorius | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | children's pipes |
puerperus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 73 | 61 | 47 | parturient, bringing forth children |
serperastra | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 1 | 1 | 1 | knee-splints, knee-bandages (to straighten the legs of children): hence (of officers, holding soldiers in check) |
siriasis | Lewis & Short | 3 | 3 | 1 | an inflammatory disease of children |
sterceia | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a maidservant who cleans the excrements from children |