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Headword | Dictionaries | Max. Inst. | Min. Inst. | # Documents | Short Definition |
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acyrologia | Lewis & Short | 11 | 11 | 2 | an impropriety of speech; |
anaudia | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | loss of speech |
antisagoge | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech by which one thing adduced |
aposiopesis | Lewis & Short | 7 | 7 | 3 | a breaking off in the midst of a speech |
barbarismus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 23 | 23 | 7 | an impropriety of speech, barbarism, Her. |
barbarus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 4,007 | 519 | 397 | of strange speech, speaking jargon, unintelligible: |
blandiloquentia | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 2 | 0 | 1 | fawning speech |
blandimentum | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 78 | 78 | 48 | flattering words, blandishment, complimentary speech, flattery |
causidicatio | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | the speech of an advocate |
contestatiuncula | Lewis & Short | 1 | 1 | 1 | a short speech |
contiuncula | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 2 | 2 | 2 | an harangue, petty speech |
cycneus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 27 | 25 | 21 | of a swan |
dictus2 | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a saying, speech |
elinguis | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 52 | 22 | 33 | tongueless, voiceless, speechless |
eloquium | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 543 | 445 | 245 | expression, utterance, speech |
eluctor | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 26 | 26 | 25 | to struggle out, force a way out |
hypocrisis | Lewis & Short | 12 | 12 | 10 | an imitation of a person's speech and gestures |
infans | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 0 | 0 | 0 | that cannot speak, without speech, mute, speechless |
locutio | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 100 | 30 | 27 | a speaking, speech, discourse |
locutus2 | Lewis & Short | 2,720 | 0 | 257 | a speaking, speech |
longiloquium | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a long speech |
loquela | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 105 | 105 | 70 | speech, words, discourse |
loquentia | Lewis & Short | 21 | 3 | 10 | a talking, discoursing, readiness in speaking, fluency of speech |
macrologia | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | tediousness in speech |
minutiloquium | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | brevity of speech |
mutus | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 1,268 | 215 | 268 | dumb, mute, speechless, without speech |
nugae | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 356 | 356 | 182 | jests, idle speeches, trifles |
obmutesco | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 85 | 85 | 48 | to become dumb, lose one's speech, be silent |
oratio | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 4,052 | 4,052 | 200 | a speaking, speech, discourse, language, faculty of speech, use of language |
oratiuncula | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 14 | 14 | 8 | a little speech, few remarks |
paradiastole | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech |
paronomasia | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech |
polyptoton | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech |
proapodosis | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech so called |
pronominatio | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech |
prosapodosis | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech |
qualis | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 10,495 | 1,835 | 768 | how constituted, of what sort, of what nature, what kind of a |
semisermo | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a half-speech |
sermo | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 3,877 | 3,877 | 528 | continued speech, talk, conversation, discourse |
suaviloquentia | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 1 | 1 | 1 | sweetness of speech, agreeableness |
superbiloquentia | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 2 | 2 | 1 | haughty speech |
symploce | Lewis & Short | 0 | 0 | 0 | a figure of speech where the same word is often repeated |
synecdoche | Lewis & Short | 11 | 11 | 4 | a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole |
vocalis | Lewis & Short, Elem. Lewis | 186 | 184 | 86 | uttering a voice, articulate, sounding, sonorous, speaking, crying, singing, vocal |