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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• SOUND
1.
  • s. A noise, sonus (the thing): sonitus (a sounding, the giving of a sound): vox (voice): tinnitus (clang, tinkling, ringing): clangor (clapping, flapping): strepitus (rustling): crepitus (clear, sharp, crashing, rattling): tonus (a tone, in music; ☞ modulatio is the melodious combination of sounds in music, not sound itself). To have a sound, sonare: to give or emit a sound, sonum or vocem, etc. edere: empty sound of words, inanis verborum sonitus; tinnitus (Tac., Dial., 26, in.).
  • A probe, Vid:
  • A shallow sea, fretum.
  • A cuttle-fish, sepia.
2. adj., sanus: validus (healthy): rectus, integer (right). I am safe and sound, salvus sum et incolumis: sound sleep, somnus artus, plenus: a sound constitution, firma corporis constitutio; corpus bene constitutum: a sound mind in a healthy body, mens sana in corpore sano (Juv.., 10, 356): to get a sound beating, vehementer vapulare: to give a sound beating, verberibus or flagris implere; male mulcare; verberibus subigere or irrigare; verberibus mulcare (all comic): to give a sound scolding to, graviter increpare aliquem; acerbe et contumeliose in aliquem invehi. ROBERTSON: probandus.
3.
  • v. Intransitively, To give a sound, sonare.: sonum edere or reddere (PROP.). That sounds well, hoc bene sonat (PROP.): oratio honesta est (figuratively).
  • Transitively, To sound a signal, canere classicum: to sound a retreat, receptui canere; signum receptui dare (Liv.); milites tuba revocare: to sound (a trumpet, etc.), inflare (buccinam, etc.): to sound the praises of anything, magnifice praedicare aliquid; buccinatorem alicujus rei esse (Cic., Fit. Fam., 16, 21).
  • PROP., To try the depth of water, *cataprorata uti; *maris altitudinem cataprorata tentare (after Isidorus, Orig., 19, 4; Vid: Freund, cataprorates):
  • Figuratively, To try, voluntatem alicujus perscrutari (Cic.); animum alicujus scrutari (Cic.) or explorare; degustare aliquem (used playfully, to see what is in him); pertentare alicujus animum; sciscitari quid cogitet (to try and find out his sentiments).