Latin Vocabulary For Pygmalion Book X Starred Words

Front 1

pudor, pdurois, m

Back 1

sense of shame; decency, chastity

Front 2

silex, silicis, m

Back 2

hard stone, flint (often used of the absence of emotions, or hardhearednesss)

Front 3

Pygmalion, Pygmalionis, m

Back 3

Pygmalion (legendary king of Cyprus, though here seen only as a sculptor)

Front 4

concipio, concipere, concepi, conceptus

Back 4

to receive; to conceive, develop; to express or compose (in words)

Front 5

concha, ae, f

Back 5

shellfish (especially the murex, the ancients' principal source for purple dye)

Front 6

gemma, ae, f

Back 6

jewel, gem

Front 7

formosus, a, um

Back 7

beautiful, lovely (a commmon epithet in elegy)

Front 8

stratum, i, n

Back 8

bedding, coverlet (often in pl) bed

Front 9

tamquam

Back 9

just as, as if, as though

Front 10

festus, a, um

Back 10

festive, with dies a holiday, festival

Front 11

icio, icere, ici, ictus

Back 11

to strike (with a weapon -here a sacrificial knife or ax)

Front 12

accendo, accendere, accendi, accensus

Back 12

to kindle, ignite, to make hotter, intensify

Front 13

cera, ae, f

Back 13

beeswax, wax (in any of its various uses, including, as here, modeling); a writing tablet

Front 14

pollex, pollicis, m

Back 14

thumb

Front 15

vena, ae, f

Back 15

blood-vessel, vein; vein, streak (of some stone or mineral)

Front 16

ora, ae, f

Back 16

shore, coast

Front 17

tendo, tendere, tetendi, tentus

Back 17

to extend, stretch forth; to proceed

Front 18

omen, ominis, n

Back 18

omen, augury, sign

Front 19

usque

Back 19

all the way to or from; continuously

Front 20

auspicium, i, n

Back 20

omen, augury

Front 21

superus, a, um

Back 21

above, upper

Front 22

Rhodopeius, a, um

Back 22

of Mt. Rhodope

Front 23

vates, vatis, m

Back 23

prophet, bard, poet

Front 24

simulacrum, i, n

Back 24

likeness; image, statue; phantom, ghost

Front 25

fungor, fungi, functus sum + abl

Back 25

to perform; to experience, suffer

Front 26

pello, pellere, pepuli, pulsus

Back 26

to beat against, strike, to drive away, banish, expel

Front 27

quisquis, quidquid

Back 27

any who, whoever, whatever

Front 28

falsus, a, um

Back 28

untrue, false, misleading, deceptive

Front 29

opacus, a, um

Back 29

shaded; shadowy, dark, dim

Front 30

fama, ae, f

Back 30

report, tradition, story

Front 31

Eurydice, Eurydices, acc Eurydicen, f

Back 31

Eurydice (a Thracian numph, wife of Orpheus)

Front 32

fatum, i, n

Back 32

prophecy, destiny, fate; Fate (as a deity); doom, death

Front 33

perago, peragere, peregi, peractusa

Back 33

to chase; to complete; to go through; to live out, complete

Front 34

munus, muneris, n

Back 34

a required task; tribute, offering (to a deity); gift (with pro, as a gift) favor, service

Front 35

usus, us, m

Back 35

use, employment, the right to use or enjoy (especially with reference to propoerty owned by another) potential for use, utility; marriage

Front 36

venia, ae, f

Back 36

favor, kindness, blessing; forgiveness, pardon; reprieve, remission

Front 37

fleo, flere, flevi, fletus

Back 37

to weep, cry, to weep for, lament

Front 38

carppo, carpere, carpsi, carptus

Back 38

to pluck, gather; to tear at; to travel, pursue (a path)

Front 39

volucris, volucris, f

Back 39

a winged creature, bird

Front 40

vaco (1)

Back 40

to be empty, unfilled; to be free from, take rest from

Front 41

saxum, i, n

Back 41

a stone, roc, boulder

Front 42

heros, heroos, m

Back 42

hero

Front 43

lumen, luminis, n

Back 43

light, an eye; vision, gaze, glance

Front 44

densus, a, um

Back 44

thick, dense, frequent

Front 45

margo, marginis, m

Back 45

wall; border, edge; margin

Front 46

metuo, metuere, metui, metutus

Back 46

to fear, be afraid of

Front 47

prendo, prendere, prendi, prensus

Back 47

to grasp, seize, take hold of; to catch, capture

Front 48

Ceres, Cereris, f

Back 48

Ceres (goddes of grain)