Latin words Dictionary
Overview and a list of Latin words and phrases with their meaning and definitions. Define your own words at Folkabulary.
- Topaz is the name of a hard, transparent gemstone that can come in a variety of colors, including yellow, blue, pink, and colorless; often used in jewelry.
- Precious gemstone
- Crystalline mineral
- vox populi is a Latin phrase that literally means “the voice of the people.
- The voice of the people; popular opinion or sentiment.
- Public opinion
- Common voice
- Antepenult is the third-to-last syllable in a word, typically found in linguistic or grammatical contexts. It is often referred to as the “antepenultimate” syllable.
- Thalassophobia is the name for an intense fear or phobia of large or deep bodies of water
- Morbid fear or anxiety about oceans, lakes, seas and large lakes
Bacillemia is the presence of bacilli in the blood
- A bacteria which can cause a disease
- Little staff, wand
- Something that spreads like bacterial infection
- Innuendo means: a hint or reference to a person or thing
- Implication
- Intimation
- Insinuation
- A drunken reveler
- An occasion of drunken revelry; orgy; bacchanalia
- A follower of Bacchus
- From Latin: berrylike
- Bearing berries
- A baccalaureate is the name for a bachelor’s degree
- Name of a religious service held at an educational institution, usually on the Sunday before commencement day