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

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• common (adj.)
    1. I. Belonging to more than one, shared with: commūnis, e (foll. by dat. or abl. with cum): death is c. to every age, omni aetati mors est c., Cic.: Troy, the c. sepulchre of Europe and of Asia, Troja commune sepulcrum Europae Asiaeque, Cat.: the one is c. to us and to the gods, the other to us and to beasts, alterum nobis cum dis, alteram cum beluis c. est, Sall.: all things belonging to friends are c. to each other, c. sunt amicorum inter se omnia, Cic.: c. feeling or sense of propriety, c. sensus, Hor. (also used to denote ordinary reason; Phaedr. M. L.): c. places, i. e. stock-topics, loci c., Cic.
    2. II. Belonging to the public:
      1. 1. publĭcus: c. property, (quod) publici juris est, Hor.: Cic.: v. public.
      2. 2. commūnis, e: their private property was small, the c. stock large, privatus illis census erat brevis, commune (Gr. τὸ κοινόν) magnum, Hor.: c. subjects (i. e. such as are c. property), communia, Hor. Phr.: to provide for the c. good, in commune consulere, Ter.; so, laborare in c., Quint.: to have all things c. (strictly, to get for the general good), in medium quaerere, Virg.: similarly, in medium quaesita reponere, Virg.; in medium conferre, Cic.: v. common, in,; community.
    3. III. Usual, ordinary:
      1. 1. vulgāris, e: rare and not c., rarum et haud v., Cic.: c. opinion, use, opinio, usus v., Cic.: c. fare, vulgaria, Hor.: v. vulgar.
      2. 2. trītus (i. e. well-worn): a c. proverb, t. proverbium, Cic.: let us make this word more general and c., faciamus usitatius hoc verbum ac tritius, Cic.
      3. 3. vīlis, e, (i. e. of little value, cheap: q. v.): water, commonest of things, aqua vilissima rerum, Hor.: the c. round (of subjects), v. orbis, Hor.
      4. 4. vulgātus (i. e. generally diffused): a c. opinion, v. opinio, Quint.: a more c. report, vulgatior fama, Liv.: very c., pervulgātus, a very c. form of consolation, perv. consolatio, Cic. (N.B. There appears to be no good authority for the word pervulgaris.)
      5. 5. quŏtīdiānus (i. e. of every day): c. words, q. verba, Cic.
      6. 6. pŏpŭlāris, e (i. e. used by people in general): c. words, p. verba, Cic.: c. (cheap) salt, sal p., Cato: the c. name (of a plant), p. nomen, Plin.
      7. 7. mĕdiocris, e: v. middling, ordinary. Phr.: a c. soldier, gregarius miles, Cic.; Sall.: a c. horse soldier, g. eques, Tac.: a c. soldier's cloak, gregale sagulum, Liv.: c. bread, cĭbārius panis, Cic. (prob. with ref. to the rations [cibaria] of a common soldier or slave): a c. man, i. e. belonging to the c. people (plebs), plebēius homo: a c. woman; v. prostitute.
    4. IV. In grammar or prosody:
      1. 1. commūnis, e: a c. syllable, c. syllaba, Donat.: c. gender, c. genus, Charis.
      2. 2. anceps, cĭpĭtis: v. doubtful.
      3. 3. prōmiscŭus: a c. noun, promiscuum nomen, Quint.