ABSTRACT
Alfenus, -i, m.: nomen gentile of P. Alfenus Varus and others; see appendix A
alga, -ae, f.: seaweed algidus, -a, -um: cold alid: see alius aliēnus, -a, -um: belonging to another person or
people; foreign aliō: adv., to another place; alio ... alio, in one
thing; indef. adj., some aliunde: adv. from elsewhere alius or alis, alia, aliud or alid: other, another Allius, -i, m.: friend of Catullus addressed in
poem 68 allocūtiō, -ōnis, f.: encouraging talk alloquor, -loquī, -locūtus: speak to, address allūdō, -lūdere, -lūsi, -lūsum: play with alimī, -uere, -uī: flow past, wash, lap alnus, -ī, f.: an alder tree alō, -ere, aluī, altum: nurse, feed, foster; cherish Alpēs, -ium, fem. pl.: the Alps, high mountains
bordering Italy on the north alter, -era, -erum: a second, one or the other (of
two); alter... alter: one ... the other altus, -a, -um: high, deep; loud amābilis, -e, m . amābilior: lovable amans, -ntis, m. or f.: sweetheart, lover amāracus, -ī, m.: marjoram, an aromatic plant
related to thyme and mint amāritiēs, -ēī, f.: bitterness Amarunsius, -a, -um: belonging to a place in
Boeotia sacred to Artemis/Diana; Amarunsia virgo: Diana
amārus, -a, -um, . amārior: bitter; (of wine) dry, tart
Amastris, -is, f., voc. Amastrī: the capital of Paphlagonia, on the southern shore of the Black Sea
Amathus, -untis, f., Gk. acc. Amathunta: a town in Cyprus
Amathūsia, -ae, f.: Venus, so-called because of her worship at Amathus
ambō, -ae, -ō, dat./abl. ambōbus, -ābus: pl. adj. & pron., both
ambrosia, -ae, f.: the food of the gods, ambrosia ambulātiō, -ōnis, f.: the act of walking; a place
for walking, covered walk, portico Ameana, -ae, f.: prostitute associated with
Mamurra in poem 41; see appendix A āniens, -ntis: demented, mad, insane arnīca, -ae, f.: any female friend; girlfriend,
mistress; (euphemistic) courtesan, prostitute amiciō, -cīre, -cuī, -ctum: cover, cloak amīcitia, -ae, f.: friendship, love amictus, -ūs, m.: a mantle or cloak amīcus, -ī, m. dim. amiculus: friend āmittō, -ere, āmīsī, āmissum: dismiss, give up,
forfeit; lose amnis, -is, m. & f.: river amō, -āre: love amor, -ōris, m.: love; personified, the god of love;
Amphitrītē, -ēs, f.: wife of Neptune; by metonymy, the sea
Amphitryōniadēs, -ae, .: Hercules, male descendant of Amphitryon
amplector, -plecti, -plexus: embrace amplificē: magnificently, splendidly amplius: adv., more, further; longer an: particle introducing questions with note of
surprise or indignation: can it be that...?; (after utrum) or
anceps, -cipitis: double-edged anelila, -ae, f.: slave girl, female slave Ancōn, -ōnis, f„ Gk. acc. Ancona: a town on the
Adriatic coast in Picenum Androgeōnēus, -a, -um: of Androgeos, son of
Minos and Pasiphae angiportum, -ī, n.: alley, lane anguīnus, -a, -um: snaky, made of snakes angustō, -āre: to make narrow, confine angustus, -a, -um: narrow anhēlō, -āre: breathe hard, gasp, pant anīlitās, -ātis, f.: old womanhood anima, -ae, f.: breath animus, -ī, m.: the mind; ex animo, from the
heart aimālis, -is, m.: a book of annals or chronicles;
(pl.) a chronicle in several books anne (an + ne): = an; introducing questions
with note of surprise or indignation: can it be that...?
