left (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. sĭnister, tra, trum (the usu. word)2. laevus (freq. in fig. sense, left-handed, awkward) • left (adj.): 1. sĭnister, tra, trum (the usu. word): the l. hand, foot, side, s. manus, pes, latus, Quint.: Caes.: Cic. Hence, as subs., sinistra, the l. hand or side: the l. hand being hampered, s. impedita, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: on the right h., or the l., a dextra, a sinistra, Cic. Div. 1, 39, 85. 2. laevus (freq. in fig. sense, left-handed, awkward): the l. hand, l. manus, Cic. Ac. 2, 47, 145: esp. poet.: Virg.: Ov. In augural sense: signs on the l. are deemed propitious, laeva prospera putantur, Plin. 2, 54, 55. Also as subs., laeva, the l. hand or side (former perh. only poet.): before and behind, on the l. and on the right, ante et pone, ad l. et ad dexteram, Cic. Tim. 13. (Scaevus not used in this sense.)