word
word
subs.
P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, ῥῆμα, τό, ἔπος, τό (rare P.), μῦθος, ὁ (rare P.).
Speech: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, ῥῆμα, τό, ῥῆσις, ἡ ; see utterance.
In grammar: Ar. and P. ὄνομα, τό.
As opposed to, deed: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, ἔπος, τό.
Message, tidings: Ar. and P. ἀγγελία, ἡ, P. and V. ἄγγελμα, τό ; see tidings.
Intelligence: P. and V. πύστῐς, ἡ (Thuc. but rare P.), V. πευθώ, ἡ.
Rumour: P. and V. φήμη, ἡ, λόγος, ὁ, V. βάξις, ἡ, κληδών, ἡ, κλέος, τό, Ar. and V. μῦθος, ὁ, φά̆τῐς, ἡ.
Word of command: P. παράγγελσις, ἡ, τὰ παραγγελλόμενα.
Pass round the word of command, v.: P. and V. πᾰραγγέλλειν.
Faith, promise: P. and V. πίστῐς, ἡ, πιστόν, τό, or pl.; see pledge.
Gave one’s word: P. and V. πίστῐν δῐδόναι; see promise.
Keep (one’s word), abide by: P. and V. ἐμμένειν (dat.).
Send word, v.: P. and V. ἀγγέλλειν ; see announce.
Send round word, P. περιαγγέλλειν.
He has remained already fifteen months without sending word: V. ἤδη δέκα μῆνας πρὸς ἄλλοις πεντʼ ἀκήρυκτος μένει (Soph. Trach. 44).
In a word: see adv., P. and V. ἁπλῶς, P. ὅλως.
To sum up: P. συνελόντι, ὡς ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν.
Briefly: P. and V. συντόμως, συλλήβδην, ἐν βρᾰχεῖ.
In word, as opposed to in deed: P. and V. λόγῳ. V. λόγοις (Eur. El. 47), τοῖς ὀνόμᾰσιν (Eur. I.A. 1115), τοῖς λόγοις (Eur. Or. 287).
As an excuse: P. and V. πρόφᾰσιν.
In so many words: P. and V. ἁπλῶς.
Expressly: P. διαρρήδην, P. and V. ἄντικρυς.
Not writing it in so many words, but wishing to make this plain: P. οὐ τούτοις τοῖς ῥήμασι γράψας ταῦτα δὲ βουλόμενος δεικνύναι (Dem. 239).
By word of mouth: P. ἀπὸ στόματος, P. and V. ἀ̆πὸ γλώσσης.
By hearsay: P. ἀκοῇ.
Word for word: Ar. κᾰτʼ ἔπος.
Exactly: P. and V. ἀκρῑβῶς.
Do you answer word for word: V. ἔπος δʼ ἀμείβου πρὸς ἔπος (Aesch. Eum 586).
Not to utter a word: P. οὐδὲ φθέγγεσθαι, Ar. and P. οὐδὲ γρύζειν.
No one dared to utter a word: P. ἐτόλμησεν οὐδεὶς . . . ῥῆξαι φωνήν (Dem. 126).
I thought I had suffered justly for having dared to utter a word: P. ἡγούμην δίκαια πεπονθέναι ὅτι ἔγρυξα (Plat. Euthyd. 301a).
Not a word: Ar. and P. οὐδὲ γρῦ.
Not a word about: P. οὐδὲ μικρὸν ὑπέρ (gen.) (Dem. 352), οὐδὲ γρῦ περί (gen.) (Dem. 353).
subs.
P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, ῥῆμα, τό, ἔπος, τό (rare P.), μῦθος, ὁ (rare P.).
Speech: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, ῥῆμα, τό, ῥῆσις, ἡ ; see utterance.
In grammar: Ar. and P. ὄνομα, τό.
As opposed to, deed: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, ἔπος, τό.
Message, tidings: Ar. and P. ἀγγελία, ἡ, P. and V. ἄγγελμα, τό ; see tidings.
Intelligence: P. and V. πύστῐς, ἡ (Thuc. but rare P.), V. πευθώ, ἡ.
Rumour: P. and V. φήμη, ἡ, λόγος, ὁ, V. βάξις, ἡ, κληδών, ἡ, κλέος, τό, Ar. and V. μῦθος, ὁ, φά̆τῐς, ἡ.
Word of command: P. παράγγελσις, ἡ, τὰ παραγγελλόμενα.
Pass round the word of command, v.: P. and V. πᾰραγγέλλειν.
Faith, promise: P. and V. πίστῐς, ἡ, πιστόν, τό, or pl.; see pledge.
Gave one’s word: P. and V. πίστῐν δῐδόναι; see promise.
Keep (one’s word), abide by: P. and V. ἐμμένειν (dat.).
Send word, v.: P. and V. ἀγγέλλειν ; see announce.
Send round word, P. περιαγγέλλειν.
He has remained already fifteen months without sending word: V. ἤδη δέκα μῆνας πρὸς ἄλλοις πεντʼ ἀκήρυκτος μένει (Soph. Trach. 44).
In a word: see adv., P. and V. ἁπλῶς, P. ὅλως.
To sum up: P. συνελόντι, ὡς ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἰπεῖν.
Briefly: P. and V. συντόμως, συλλήβδην, ἐν βρᾰχεῖ.
In word, as opposed to in deed: P. and V. λόγῳ. V. λόγοις (Eur. El. 47), τοῖς ὀνόμᾰσιν (Eur. I.A. 1115), τοῖς λόγοις (Eur. Or. 287).
As an excuse: P. and V. πρόφᾰσιν.
In so many words: P. and V. ἁπλῶς.
Expressly: P. διαρρήδην, P. and V. ἄντικρυς.
Not writing it in so many words, but wishing to make this plain: P. οὐ τούτοις τοῖς ῥήμασι γράψας ταῦτα δὲ βουλόμενος δεικνύναι (Dem. 239).
By word of mouth: P. ἀπὸ στόματος, P. and V. ἀ̆πὸ γλώσσης.
By hearsay: P. ἀκοῇ.
Word for word: Ar. κᾰτʼ ἔπος.
Exactly: P. and V. ἀκρῑβῶς.
Do you answer word for word: V. ἔπος δʼ ἀμείβου πρὸς ἔπος (Aesch. Eum 586).
Not to utter a word: P. οὐδὲ φθέγγεσθαι, Ar. and P. οὐδὲ γρύζειν.
No one dared to utter a word: P. ἐτόλμησεν οὐδεὶς . . . ῥῆξαι φωνήν (Dem. 126).
I thought I had suffered justly for having dared to utter a word: P. ἡγούμην δίκαια πεπονθέναι ὅτι ἔγρυξα (Plat. Euthyd. 301a).
Not a word: Ar. and P. οὐδὲ γρῦ.
Not a word about: P. οὐδὲ μικρὸν ὑπέρ (gen.) (Dem. 352), οὐδὲ γρῦ περί (gen.) (Dem. 353).
word
v. trans.
Use P. and V. λέγειν.
Vaguely worded: V. δυσκρί̆τως εἰρημένος.
v. trans.
Use P. and V. λέγειν.
Vaguely worded: V. δυσκρί̆τως εἰρημένος.
WORD
s. vocabulum (as the name of anything = nomen; rare in Cic.): verbum (considered as spoken or written): vox (an expression containing a complete proposition: vox especially as an expression of feeling verbum of an idea): dictum (an expression of intellect or humor; often an expression may be regarded as a vox or a dictum): nomen (the distinctive name of an object). “The word plough ” verbum aratri (☞ not verbum aratrum): words = speech sermo: oratio: an old word verbum vetus vetustum priscum: a new word verbum novum novatum: word for word ad verbum (e.g. de Graecis exprimere; ediscere; cum aliqua re convenire); verbum e verbo exprimere (Cic. when he translates e.g. πάθη morbi; κατάληψις comprehensio); verbum de verbo expressum efferre (Ter. in same sense); verbum pro verbo reddere (☞ not verbo tenus which is = “in word only”: opposed to re): to give the spirit of an author without translating him word for word non verbum pro verbo reddere sed genus omnium verborum vimque servare (Cic.): to translate word for word ad verbum aliquid transferre exprimere (Cic.): verbum verbo reddere (Hor.); verbis totidem aliquid transferre (Cic.): to say a word verbum facere: not to utter a word verbum nullum facere (Cic.): to get a word out of anybody verbum ex aliquo elicere (Cic.): to define one’s words verba definire et describere: to use a word in a certain sense; by circumlocution with verbo uti (not verbum usurpare adhibere); subjicere sententiam vocabulo; vocabulo aliquid significare declarare. To use a word in a rare application verbum doctiuscule ponere. Cicero too makes a similar application of the word item consimiliter Cicero verbo isto utitur. Cicero uses the word in a contrary meaning contra valet cum Cicero - ita dicit: to agree in substance but to be different in words re consentire vocabulis differre (Cic.): to which the word virtue is usually applied in quo nomen poni solet virtutis (☞ if the word in apposition is an adjective the following passage of Cic. is a good example: “To the word happy ” etc. huic verbo cum beatum dicimus etc.; Cic. Tusc. 5 10). To exchange words with anybody verba commutare cum aliquo or inter se: to have words = to quarrel dispute altercari altercationem facere (Cic.); verbis certare cum aliquo: to say anything in few words brevi circumscribere explicare expedire aliquid; parva significatione ostendere aliquid: I with to say two or three words to you paucis te volo (Persius); te tribus verbis volo (Plaut.); tribus verbis (ib.); paucis ausculta! paucis audi! (Ter.): fair words blandae voces; benigna oratio; benigna verba (Cic.): to waste words verba frustra consumere: don’t say a word about the marriage verbum unum cave de nuptiis (Ter.): not to suffer one to speak a word interloqui aliquem (Ter.); loqui conantem interpellare: in one word uno verbo; ut verbo dicam; quid multa? To take the words out of one’s mouth orationem alicui ex ore eripere (Plaut.): not to be able to get a word from anybody ex aliquo verbum elicere or vocem exprimere non posse: to say or put in a good word for anybody deprecari aliquem ab aliquo (in order to avert a danger etc.): commendare aliquem alicui (in order to recommend or introduce him). To beguile by fair words ducere aliquem dictis with or without phaleratis (frequent in Ter.); lactare aliquem et spe falsa producere (Ter. Andr. 4 1 24): to put one off with fair words pollicitaudo lactare alicujus animum (ib. 4 4 9): want of words inopia (verborum; opposed to verborum copia ubertas): a little word = particle vocula (Gell.; ☞ but there is no authority for verbulum): structure of words ordo strilctura verborum; consecutio verborum (construction): connection of words verborum junctio (Cic.) junctura (Hor. A.P.) copulatio (Quint.): word of command [Vid: COMMAND]. To be at a loss for words verba desunt alicui (Cic.); aliquis continuandi verba facilitate [al. facilitate] destituitur (from confusion want of presence of mind Quint.): to employ a word that has become obsolete verbum a vetustate repetere (Quint.). Play upon words annominatio (Cic. and Quint. [Vid. PUNNING and the examples there given]): verborum lusus (Ruhnken): To have the last word ad extremum obloqui (Bauer): the Word of God = the Bible litterae divinae sanctae; libri divini (ecclesiastical): to preach the Word of God *Dei voluntatem interpretari [Vid : also Holy WRIT]: the Word of Life *doctrina salutaris.
Promise fides; promissum. To give one’s word promissum dare; promittere aliquid: to pledge one’s word for anything fidem suam in aliquam rem interponere (Caes.); to anybody fidem alicui dare (Cic.) or interponere (Caes.) or astringere (Ter.): to keep one’s word be as good as one’s word fidem servare praestare (Cic.) conservare (Nep.) liberare (Cic.) exsolvere (Liv.); in fide manere; promissum servare exsolvere (opposed to fidem non servare; in fide non stare; promissis non stare; promissum non facere; fidem fallere mutare prodere): on your word tua fide (Plaut.); te auctore sponsore (after Cic.): on my word mea fide (Cic.); me auctore; me vide! a man of his word vir fidem datam promissum datum religiose servans: to keep one to his word postulare ut fidem datam servet exsolvet aliquis (after Cic.; to demand the fulfilment of a promise): instare verbis alicujus; premere verba alicujus (in argument to tie one close to his expressions): I rely upon your word tuo promisso tuis dictis confido nitor: you have my word fidem meam habes! rata ac firma sunt quae promisi: an honorable man’s word is as good as his bond in virum honestum bonum non cadit mendacium fraus; promissa fides sequetur.
s. vocabulum (as the name of anything = nomen; rare in Cic.): verbum (considered as spoken or written): vox (an expression containing a complete proposition: vox especially as an expression of feeling verbum of an idea): dictum (an expression of intellect or humor; often an expression may be regarded as a vox or a dictum): nomen (the distinctive name of an object). “The word plough ” verbum aratri (☞ not verbum aratrum): words = speech sermo: oratio: an old word verbum vetus vetustum priscum: a new word verbum novum novatum: word for word ad verbum (e.g. de Graecis exprimere; ediscere; cum aliqua re convenire); verbum e verbo exprimere (Cic. when he translates e.g. πάθη morbi; κατάληψις comprehensio); verbum de verbo expressum efferre (Ter. in same sense); verbum pro verbo reddere (☞ not verbo tenus which is = “in word only”: opposed to re): to give the spirit of an author without translating him word for word non verbum pro verbo reddere sed genus omnium verborum vimque servare (Cic.): to translate word for word ad verbum aliquid transferre exprimere (Cic.): verbum verbo reddere (Hor.); verbis totidem aliquid transferre (Cic.): to say a word verbum facere: not to utter a word verbum nullum facere (Cic.): to get a word out of anybody verbum ex aliquo elicere (Cic.): to define one’s words verba definire et describere: to use a word in a certain sense; by circumlocution with verbo uti (not verbum usurpare adhibere); subjicere sententiam vocabulo; vocabulo aliquid significare declarare. To use a word in a rare application verbum doctiuscule ponere. Cicero too makes a similar application of the word item consimiliter Cicero verbo isto utitur. Cicero uses the word in a contrary meaning contra valet cum Cicero - ita dicit: to agree in substance but to be different in words re consentire vocabulis differre (Cic.): to which the word virtue is usually applied in quo nomen poni solet virtutis (☞ if the word in apposition is an adjective the following passage of Cic. is a good example: “To the word happy ” etc. huic verbo cum beatum dicimus etc.; Cic. Tusc. 5 10). To exchange words with anybody verba commutare cum aliquo or inter se: to have words = to quarrel dispute altercari altercationem facere (Cic.); verbis certare cum aliquo: to say anything in few words brevi circumscribere explicare expedire aliquid; parva significatione ostendere aliquid: I with to say two or three words to you paucis te volo (Persius); te tribus verbis volo (Plaut.); tribus verbis (ib.); paucis ausculta! paucis audi! (Ter.): fair words blandae voces; benigna oratio; benigna verba (Cic.): to waste words verba frustra consumere: don’t say a word about the marriage verbum unum cave de nuptiis (Ter.): not to suffer one to speak a word interloqui aliquem (Ter.); loqui conantem interpellare: in one word uno verbo; ut verbo dicam; quid multa? To take the words out of one’s mouth orationem alicui ex ore eripere (Plaut.): not to be able to get a word from anybody ex aliquo verbum elicere or vocem exprimere non posse: to say or put in a good word for anybody deprecari aliquem ab aliquo (in order to avert a danger etc.): commendare aliquem alicui (in order to recommend or introduce him). To beguile by fair words ducere aliquem dictis with or without phaleratis (frequent in Ter.); lactare aliquem et spe falsa producere (Ter. Andr. 4 1 24): to put one off with fair words pollicitaudo lactare alicujus animum (ib. 4 4 9): want of words inopia (verborum; opposed to verborum copia ubertas): a little word = particle vocula (Gell.; ☞ but there is no authority for verbulum): structure of words ordo strilctura verborum; consecutio verborum (construction): connection of words verborum junctio (Cic.) junctura (Hor. A.P.) copulatio (Quint.): word of command [Vid: COMMAND]. To be at a loss for words verba desunt alicui (Cic.); aliquis continuandi verba facilitate [al. facilitate] destituitur (from confusion want of presence of mind Quint.): to employ a word that has become obsolete verbum a vetustate repetere (Quint.). Play upon words annominatio (Cic. and Quint. [Vid. PUNNING and the examples there given]): verborum lusus (Ruhnken): To have the last word ad extremum obloqui (Bauer): the Word of God = the Bible litterae divinae sanctae; libri divini (ecclesiastical): to preach the Word of God *Dei voluntatem interpretari [Vid : also Holy WRIT]: the Word of Life *doctrina salutaris.
Promise fides; promissum. To give one’s word promissum dare; promittere aliquid: to pledge one’s word for anything fidem suam in aliquam rem interponere (Caes.); to anybody fidem alicui dare (Cic.) or interponere (Caes.) or astringere (Ter.): to keep one’s word be as good as one’s word fidem servare praestare (Cic.) conservare (Nep.) liberare (Cic.) exsolvere (Liv.); in fide manere; promissum servare exsolvere (opposed to fidem non servare; in fide non stare; promissis non stare; promissum non facere; fidem fallere mutare prodere): on your word tua fide (Plaut.); te auctore sponsore (after Cic.): on my word mea fide (Cic.); me auctore; me vide! a man of his word vir fidem datam promissum datum religiose servans: to keep one to his word postulare ut fidem datam servet exsolvet aliquis (after Cic.; to demand the fulfilment of a promise): instare verbis alicujus; premere verba alicujus (in argument to tie one close to his expressions): I rely upon your word tuo promisso tuis dictis confido nitor: you have my word fidem meam habes! rata ac firma sunt quae promisi: an honorable man’s word is as good as his bond in virum honestum bonum non cadit mendacium fraus; promissa fides sequetur.
v. Vid: EXPRESS.
λόγος
λόγος, λόγου, ὁ, word, speech, story
ἔπος
ἔπος, ἔπους, τό, word; (pl., sometimes) epic poetry
μῦθος
anything, delivered by word of mouth, word, speech
ῥῆμα
(spoken) word, line, verb
παροιμία
a by-word, common saying, proverb, maxim, saw
word of ill omen
δυσφημία
ill language, words of ill omen
θρύλημα
common talk, by-word
παρεγγύη
a word of command passed on
στομφασμός
creation of a mouth-filling word
τρυγῳδία
trygedy, comic word for comedy
τρυγῳδικός
trygic, comic word for comic
φῆμα
that which is said, word
ἐννεαγράμματον
word of nine letters
ἐπιφήμισμα
a word of ominous import
ἐπιφωνητικός
an added word
ὁμωνυμία
a having the same name, identity, an equivocal word
λόγος, λόγου, ὁ, word, speech, story
ἔπος
ἔπος, ἔπους, τό, word; (pl., sometimes) epic poetry
μῦθος
anything, delivered by word of mouth, word, speech
ῥῆμα
(spoken) word, line, verb
παροιμία
a by-word, common saying, proverb, maxim, saw
appearing fewer than 50 times
δυσφήμημαword of ill omen
δυσφημία
ill language, words of ill omen
θρύλημα
common talk, by-word
παρεγγύη
a word of command passed on
στομφασμός
creation of a mouth-filling word
τρυγῳδία
trygedy, comic word for comedy
τρυγῳδικός
trygic, comic word for comic
φῆμα
that which is said, word
ἐννεαγράμματον
word of nine letters
ἐπιφήμισμα
a word of ominous import
ἐπιφωνητικός
an added word
ὁμωνυμία
a having the same name, identity, an equivocal word
verbum
a word
dictum
something said, a saying, word, assertion, remark
maledictum
a foul saying, abusive word
a word
loquela
speech, words, discourse
a word
dictum
something said, a saying, word, assertion, remark
maledictum
a foul saying, abusive word
appearing fewer than 50 times
lexisa word
loquela
speech, words, discourse