• PLAIN

1.

• adj.,
• Clear, manifest, clarus (clear, to the sight and to the hearing; distinct; figuratively, intelligible): manifestus, perspicuus, evidens (apparent, to the eyes or to the mind): planus (not confused, clear): lucidus, dilucidus, illustris (luminous): explicatus (not intricate): expressus (accurately expressed): distinctus (well-arranged, methodical): a very plain handwriting, litterae compositissimae atque clarissimae (Cic., Att., 6, 9, 1): a plain style, sermo dilucidus or distinctus: a plain pronunciation, os planum or explanatum (opposed to os confusum): a plain speech, oratio plana et evidens; oratio dilucida or illustris: a plain image, expressa effigies or imago: a plain description, dilucida et significans descriptio: plain traces of the crime exist, exstant expressa sceleris vestigia: it is plain, constat; apparet; elucet; liquet (☞ constat refers to a truth made out and fixed; opposed to a wavering fancy or rumor, whereas apparet, elucet, and liquet, denote what is clear and evident; apparet, under the idea of something stepping out of the background into sight; elucet, under that of a light shining out of darkness; liquet, under that of frozen water melted; Döderlein).
• Unadorned, simplex; nudus; inornatus.
• Mere, bare, merus; nudus.
• Level, aequus; planus.
• Honest, candidus; apertus; sincerus.

2. s. planities; aequus et planus locus (level ground): campus (with or without planus or apertus; opposed to a chain of mountains): aequor (any extended surface, frequent in the poets, but found also, in Cic.; e.g., De Div., 1, 42, init.): aequata planities, exaequatio (a place made level; ☞ not planum in the foregoing sense; it is = a plane in geometry: camporum aequor can be applied only to a very large plain, and is somewhat poetical): that dwells, grows, etc., in a plain, campester: the Egyptians and Babylonians inhabited extensive plains, aegyptii et Babylonii in camporum patentium aequoribus habitabant (Cic., loc. cit.).