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cado :
to fall, drop, plummet, topple.
caecus :
blind, sightless.
caelestis :
heavenly, celestial / noun, a god, dweller in heaven.
caelum :
sky, heaven.
calamitas :
calamity, misfortune, disaster.
calamus :
anything made or reed -- pen, arrow, pipe, etc.
calcar, -is :
spur.
calco :
to tread, trample upon.
calculus :
pebble, stone.
callide :
skillfully, cleverly / cunningly, slyly, subtly.
callidus :
clever, dextrous, experienced, skilful / cunning, sly.
Cameracum :
Cambrai.
campana :
bell.
candidus :
bright, shining, white.
canis :
dog.
canonicus :
canonical, according to the canons, legal, lawful, right.
canonus :
canon, member of a cathedral chapter or canonry, Augustinian.
canto :
to sing.
capillus :
hair.
capio :
to seize, take, choose / attack, injure / comprehend.
capitulus :
chapter, chapter meeting, chapter house.
capto :
to grab, try to get, grab at.
caput capitis :
head / top, summit / chief
carbo carbonis :
carbon, coal, charcoal.
carcer :
prison, cell, jail, dungeon.
careo :
(+ abl. of sep.) be without, be deprived of, lack, want.
caries :
rottenness, corruption, decay.
cariosus :
rotten, decayed.
caritas :
dearness, affection / charity.
carmen :
song, poem.
Carnotense :
Chartres.
Carnutum Carnotum :
Chartres.
carpo :
to pluck, seize, grab, lay hold of, hold on to.
carus :
dear, beloved / costly, high-priced, expensive.
casso :
to bring to naught, destroy, annul, make void.
caste :
purely, spotlessly, purely, uprightly, chastely.
Castellandum :
Chateaudun.
casus :
accident, chance, fortune.
catena :
chain, fetters.
caterva :
crowd, troop, flock.
catervatim :
in troops, in masses.
Cathalaunenses :
Chalons.
cattus :
cat.
cauda :
the tail of an animal.
causa :
(in the abl.) on account of, for the sake of.
causa :
cause / reason, motive, pretext / interest.
causa :
case at law, case, law-suit / situation, condition.
caute cautim :
cautiously, with security.
cautela :
caution, precaution, security.
caveo cavi cautum :
beware, avoid, look out for.
cavus :
hole, pit.
cedo :
to go, proceed / turn out, happen / go away, withdraw.
cedo cessi cessum :
to grant, yield.
cedo :
(+ dat.) give ground to, submit to, be inferior to.
celebrer :
famous, renowned.
celebrus :
abounding in, rich in, much frequented, respected.
celer :
quick, swift, rapid, speedy, fast.
celeritas :
speed, swiftness, rapidity, quickness.
celeriter :
rapidly, quickly, swiftly, speedily.
celo :
to hide, conceal, keep secret.
cena :
dinner, meal.
cenaculum :
garret, attic.
ceno :
to dine.
censura :
judgement.
centum :
(indecl.) one hundred, 100.
cerno :
to separate, sift, distinguish / decide, resolve, determine.
cernuus :
falling headlong.
certe certo :
(adv) certainly, assuredly.
certo :
to contend, settle, dispute, to settle by combat.
certus :
undoubted, certain, sure.
certus :
settled, resolved, decided / definite, certain, sure.
cervus :
stag, deer
cetera :
for the rest, otherwise
ceteri :
the remaining, the rest, the others
ceterum :
(adv.) otherwise, moreover, but.
ceterus :
the other, the rest.
charisma carisma :
gift, present.
chirographum :
autograph, person's own handwriting / written charter.
cibo :
food for animals
cibus :
food for men and animals.
cicuta :
hemlock.
cilicium :
(? Herimann, p. 311)
cimentarius :
mason?
ciminatio :
accusation, calumny, charge.
ciminosus :
reproachful, slanderous.
cinis cineris :
ashes, embers.
circumvenio :
to come around, surround, cheat, defraud.
circumvenio :
to beset, assail.
cito:
quickly, rapidly, speedily.
civilis :
civil, civic.
civis :
citizen, townsman, bourgeois, burgess.
civitas :
state, citizenship, city-state.
clam :
secretly, in secret.
clamo :
to call, shout, cry aloud, proclaim, declare.
clamor :
loud shouting, cry.
claro :
to make bright or clear, make clear in the mind.
clarus :
clear, bright / renowned, famous, illustrious
claudeo :
to limp, halt, be lame, to hobble.
claudo (clausus) :
to confine, shut up, close, blockade, besiege.
claudus :
lame.
claustrum :
bolt, bar, prison, den, pen, enclosure / cloister.
clementia :
indulgence, forbearance, humanity, mercy, gentleness, etc.
clibanus :
oven, furnace / tray for bread making.
coadunatio :
a gathering together, a summing up, a uniting.
coaegresco :
to become sick at the same time.
coepi : (pres. incipio ) :
began, started, undertook, initiated.
coerceo :
surround, enclose, restrain, confine.
cogito :
to think, ruminate, ponder, consider, plan.
cognatus :
(adj.) related by blood (noun) a relative, kinsman.
cognomen :
surname, family name, nick-name.
cognosco :
to examine, inquire, learn.
cogo, coegi, coactum :
to compel, restrict, confine.
cogo, coegi, coactum :
to bring together, drive, draw.
cohaero cohero cohesi cohesum :
to adhere, stick together
cohibeo :
confine, restrain, hold back, repress.
cohors :
a yard, enclosure / troop, 1 / 10 of a legion.
cohortor :
to encourage, incite, exhort.
colligo :
to gather together, collect, assemble.
colloco :
to place, put, arrange.
collum :
neck.
colo colui cultum :
cultivate, cherish
color :
color.
coloratus :
colored / dark-complexioned.
coloro :
to color.
coma :
hair of the head, leaves, rays of light.
combibo :
to drink up, suck in.
comburo :
to burn up, to ruin, consume.
comedo comedi comesum :
to eat up, consume / waste, squander.
comes comitis :
companion, friend, comrade / count.
cometes :
comet
cometissa comitissa :
countess.
comis :
courteous, kind, friendly.
comitatus :
train, retinue, following / war band.
comiter :
courteously, in a kindly, friendly manner.
comitto :
to entrust, commit.
commemoro :
to remind, relate, mention.
commeo :
To go up and down, back and forth, in and out.
commessatio, onis :
eating together.
comminor :
to threaten.
comminuo :
to scatter, weaken, damage.
comminus :
hand to hand, in close combat.
commisceo :
to intermingle, join, mix.
commissum :
undertaking, that which is entrusted.
commodo :
(+ acc.) to furnish, lend, give.
commodo :
to make fit, adapt, please, oblige, serve.
commodum :
suitable time, opportunity, convenience, use.
commodum :
convenience, advantage, opportunity, comfort.
commoneo :
to remind someone forcibly of something.
commoneo :
to remember, recollect.
commoneo :
to impress upon one. to remind.
commoveo :
to move violently, disturb, shake / excite, upset.
communis :
common, general, run of the mill.
comparo :
to compare.
compater :
the godfather of a man's child.
compatior :
to suffer with one, feel pity, have compassion.
compello :
to drive together, collect, force, compel.
comperio :
to disclose wholly, lay open / learn, find out.
comperio :
to disclose fully, find out with certainty.
comperte :
on good authority.
compes, compedis :
fetters, shackles, chained.
compes :
fetters, shackles, chains.
competo :
to be appropriate, suitable, fit.
complectus :
embrace, grasp.
compleo :
to finish.
compleo :
to fill up, man, bring up to strength, fulfill.
compono :
to put together, compose.
compositio :
composition, agreement, pact / arrangement.
compositus :
orderly, matching, made up of pieces.
comprehendo :
to seize, arrest, take prisoner, catch red-handed.
comprehendo :
to grasp, take together, unite / comprehend.
comprehendo :
to embrace, take firmly, include, seize.
comprobo :
to approve fully / to confirm, prove, establish.
comprovincialis :
born in the same province.
comptus :
a head-dress, a hairband.
conatus :
exertion, effort / undertaking / impulse, inclination.
concedo :
to concede, yield, allow, grant, withdraw, give up.
concepta :
measures, capacity.
concero :
connect join, twine, join in conflict.
concido :
to fall down, sink, perish / (wind) subside.
concido :
to be ruined, fail / cut up, cut down, destroy.
concilium :
council
concipio :
to take or lay hold of, receive, take in.
concisus :
cut up, broken, brief, concise.
concito :
to move violently, stir up, excite.
conculco :
to tread under foot, despise, oppress, suppress.
concupiscentia :
avarice, covetousness.
concupisco :
to covet, aim at, desire eagerly.
concutio :
to shake, disturb, agitate.
concutio :
to shake together, agitate, alarm, disturb, shatter.
Condato :
Cond.
condico :
to agree, fix, settle, make arrangements.
conduco :
hire, employ for wages, among many other meanings.
confero :
to bring together, put together, collect /
confero :
discuss, debate, confer / betake oneself, devote.
confestim :
immediately, without delay.
confido :
have confidence in, be confident of, rely upon.
confiteor confessus :
to confess, own up, admit, acknowledge.
conforto :
to strengthen much.
confugo :
to flee, have recourse to, take refuge.
congregatio :
assembly, society, union.
congrego :
to gather together, assemble, convene.
congruus :
agreeing, fit, suitable.
conicio :
to hurl, throw / put together, conjecture.
coniecto :
to throw together, infer, guess, conclude.
conitor :
to press upon, to struggle to reach
coniuratio :
conspiracy, plot.
coniuratus :
conspirator, plotter.
coniuro :
to take an oath together, plot, conspire.
conor :
to undertake, try, venture, presume, attempt.
conqueror :
to complain loudly.
conscendo :
to ascend, mount, go up.
conscientia :
conscience, consciousness, knowledge
conscindo :
to tear in pieces.
conscius :
conscious of, aware of.
conservo :
to preserve, conserve, maintain, keep, hold to.
considero :
to look at, regard carefully,
consido :
to set down, settle.
consilio :
intentionally, on purpose, designedly.
consilium :
deliberation, consultation, assembly, council.
consilium :
advice, suggestion, wisdom, plan, purpose, judgment.
consisto :
(+ in) to depend on, rely on.
consisto :
to take one's stand, stand still, stop, be posted.
consisto :
(+ abl. etc.) to be formed of, consist / stop, stay.
consitor :
sower, planter.
conspergo :
to sprinkle, bestrew.
conspicio :
to catch sight of, perceive, behold, understand.
constans :
steady, firm, unchanging, constant, unwavering.
constanter :
steadily, firmly.
constituo :
to set up, place, establish, post, station.
constituo :
to arrange, decide, appoint, settle, found, set up.
consto :
to be established, stand firm, stop, endure.
constringo constrixi constrictum :
to bind, confine, restrain.
construo construxi constructum :
to construct, build, arrange.
constupator :
ravisher, debaucher.
constupro :
to ravish, corrupt.
consuasor :
advisor, counselor.
consuefacio :
to accustom, acclimate, become used to.
consuesco :
to accustom, inure, habituate
consueta :
customary, usual.
consuetudo :
custom, usage, habit / intimacy, familiar acquaintance.
consulatio :
deliberation, inquiry, full consideration.
consulo :
to reflect, consider, ponder, reflect.
consulo :
(+ dat.) look to the interests of / consult, ask advice.
consulo :
to look to the interests of, come to a conclusion.
consulto :
to ask the advice of, consult.
consulto :
to consider carefully, weigh, ponder.
consultum :
decree.
consummatio :
completion, summing up, adding up.
consummo :
to add together, sum up, make perfect, complete.
consumo :
to spend, employ, use up, finish, waste away, destroy.
consuo consui consutum :
to sew together, stitch.
consurgo :
to stand up, rise up / to arise, break out.
contabesco :
to waste slowly away, decline in health.
contactus :
touching, contact / contagion.
contages :
a touch, contact.
contagio contagium :
contagion, infection / touching, contact.
contamino :
to pollute, infect.
contego :
to cover, shield, protect, defend.
contemno :
to think meanly of, despise, condemn, hate.
contemplatio :
survey, contemplation.
contemplor :
to mark out, regard, consider carefully, survey.
contemptim :
contemptuously.
contemptio :
scorn, disdain, contempt.
contemptus :
despised, despicable, contemptible.
contendo :
to compare, contrast / compete.
contendo :
to contend, strive, struggle, hasten.
contendo :
to assert, maintain / shoot (a missile), cast.
contente :
eagerly, earnestly.
contentus :
contented, satisfied
contentus :
strained, stretched / eager, zealous.
contigo :
(with dat.), to happen, befall.
contineo :
to touch, reach, grasp, affect, infect.
contineo contigi, contectum :
border on / befall (good luck).
contineo :
to keep in, surround, contain, confine, include.
contineo :
hold together, keep together, connect, join.
contineo:
to hold back, restrain.
contingo :
(contactum) to touch closely, happen to, befall.
continuo :
(adv.) immediately, at once.
continuus :
connected together, continuous, uninterrupted.
contra :
(+ acc.) against.
contradictio :
a speaking against, contradiction.
contrado :
to deliver together, or wholly.
contraho :
to draw together, collect, assemble, carry out.
contristo :
to make sad or gloomy
contristo :
to sadden, afflict, damage (of crops).
conturbo :
to confuse, scatter, throw into confusion, distress.
conventus :
coming together, assembly, union, congress.
conversatio :
way, manner of life / monastic life.
converto :
to turn around, cause to turn / to adopt the monastic life.
convoco :
to call together, convene.
copia :
abundance, supply.
copiae copie :
supplies, troops, forces.
copiose :
fully, at length, copiously.
Corbeiam :
Corbie.
cornu :
horn.
corona :
crown, diadem.
corpus corporis :
body, corpse.
correptius :
more shortly.
corrigo : (correctum) :
to make correct, make right.
corripio :
to seize, snatch up, steal, (of a disease) attack
corroboro :
to strengthen.
corrumpo :
to break up, destroy, annihilate / spoil, weaken.
corrumpo :
(documents) to falsify / (character) to corrupt.
corruo :
to fall to the ground, sink down / be ruined, destroyed.
Corturiacum :
Courtrai.
coruscus :
(a) flashing, twinkling, shaking, trembling.
cotidie :
daily, every day.
Courtacum :
Courtrai.
crapula :
wine-drinking, intoxication, drunkenness.
cras :
(adv.) tomorrow, on the morrow.
crastinus :
of the morrow, the morrow.
creator :
creator, founder.
creatura :
creature, servant.
creber :
thick, frequent, numerous.
crebro :
repeatedly, often, one after the other, time after time.
credo :
to believe / trust, commit / trust in, rely on / think.
creo :
to create, make.
creptio :
taking by force, seizure.
crepusculum :
dusk, twilight.
cresco : (cretum) :
to grow, increase, expand.
creta :
chalk, fuller's earth.
cribro :
to sift.
cribrum :
sieve.
crinis :
hair.
crinitus :
long haired.
cruciamentum :
torture, torment.
crucio :
to torture, torment.
crudelis :
cruel.
cruentus :
to make bloody, stain with blood.
cruentus :
bloody, bloodthirsty, blood-red.
crur, cruris :
leg, shank, shin, also foot.
crustulum :
pastry, cookie.
crux crucis :
cross.
cubicularis :
pertaining to a bedroom
cubicularius :
bed-chamber servant, chamberlain.
cubiculum :
bedroom, sleeping chamber.
cubitum ire :
to go to bed, retire
cubitum :
the elbow / a cubit.
cubo :
to lie down, recline.
cui :
(masc. sing. dat.) TO WHOM did you give it?
cui :
(fem. sing. dat.) IN WHICH (province) did you live?
cui :
(neut. sing. dat.) (the monster), TO WHOM the cattle belonged.
cuius :
(neut. sing. gen) (the building) the size OF WHICH was great.
cuius :
(masc. sing. gen.) (the saint) WHOSE virtues were many.
cuius :
(fem. sing. gen.) (the queen), the vices OF WHOM were many.
cuiusmodi :
of what kind.
culpa :
fault, blame, (esp. against chastity).
culpo :
to blame, censure, accuse.
cultellus :
a little knife.
cultura :
cultivation
cum :
(prep + abl.) with.
cum :
(with indicative) when.
cum :
(with subjunctive) when, as, while, since, although.
cunabula :
cradle.
cunae :
nest for young birds.
cunctatio :
delay.
cunctator :
delayer, procrastinator,
cunctor :
to delay, impede, hold up.
cunctus :
all, all collectively, the whole.
cupiditas :
ambition, avarice, party spirit, eager desire.
cupido :
passion, desire, wanting, yearning, longing.
cupio :
to desire, wish, long for, desire.
cuppedia :
delicacies, candies, sweetmeats.
cupressus :
cypress, cypress wood, a cypress-wood casket.
cur :
why, wherefore.
cura :
management, administration, care, concern, charge.
curatio :
attention / medical attention, healing, curing.
curator :
guardian, overseer
curia :
court
curiositas :
curiosity, inquisitiveness, nosiness.
curiosus :
careful, attentive / curious, inquisitive / worn out by cares.
curis quris :
a spear.
curo :
to care for, trouble about, pay attention to.
curo :
manage, administer / provide money.
curo :
(+gerundive) to see to a thing being done / cure, rest.
curriculum :
a running, race, lap around the track, course.
currus :
cart / a plow with wheels.
cursim :
hastily, quickly, rapidly.
cursito :
to run up and down.
curso :
to run back and forth.
cursor :
runner, carrier, messenger.
cursus :
a race, a running, race course, race track, course.
curto :
to shorten, abbreviate.
Curtracus :
Courtrai.
curtus :
shortened / mutilated, defective / gelded.
curvo :
to bend, arch, curve / influence.
curvus :
arched, bent, bowed, curved, crooked, wrong (morally crooked).
custodia :
protection, custody.
custodiae custodie :
guards, wardens.
custos : (custodis) :
guardian, keeper, watchman, attendant, guard / spy.
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