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

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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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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• germ:
    1. I. The embryo plant in a seed: perh. gemma (v. bud): or in scient. lang., germen, ĭnis, n. (in class. authors, that which springs from the seed: cf. Plin. 18, 10, 21).
    2. II. Fig.: the first principle of anything:
      1. 1. sēmen, ĭnis, n. (lit. seed): the g.s of all things, s. rerum, Lucr. 1, 60: as it were the first principles and g.s of virtue, initia quaedam ac s. virtutum, Quint. 2, 20, 6.
      2. 2. ĭnĭtium, prīmordium (rare in this sense in sing.): v. element.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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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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• GERM
  • PROPR., germen: asparagus (the asparagus-like germ of several plants; ☞ Plin., 23, 1, 17; 21, 15, 54): cyma (young, tender germ, especially of the cabbage tribe). To destroy the germ of a plant, fetum reprimere (☞ Cic., Brut., 4, 16, Meyer).
  • IMPROPR., semen (the seed; e.g., malorum, discordiarum): igniculus, especially in plur., igniculi (the first sparks; e.g., virtutum): initium (general term for beginning of anything): ☞ germen, in this sense, is without good ancient authority, except poetically, Lucr., 4, 1079. To destroy or crush the first germ of anything, aliquid primo tempore opprimere et exstinguere: things apparently unimportant often contain the germ of great events, ex rebus primo aspectu levibus magnarum saepe rerum motus oriuntur.