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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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• instrument:
    1. I. Implement:
      1. 1. instrūmentum (oft. used as collective): v. implement. Freq. in fig. sense: what powerful i.s (appliances) for attaining to wisdom, quanta i. ad adipiscendam sapientiam, Cic. Leg. 1, 22, fin.
      2. 2. orgănum (Gk. ὄργανον: esp. of an elaborate or scientific kind): an i. called a mallet, org. quod dicitur tudicula, Col. 12, 50, med.: astronomical i.s, organa, per quae stellarum ac siderum loca atque magnitudines signentur, Plin. 2, 26, 24. Freq. of musical instruments: Juv. 6, 380: Quint. (later, a peculiar kind of musical i., Eng. "organ").
      3. 3. māchĭna (of a large or formidable kind): v. machine. Phr.: surgical i.s, *ferramenta chirurgorum (R. and A.).
    2. II. Legal: instrūmentum, tăbŭla, etc.: v. document.
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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• INSTRUMENT
  • Tool, etc., instrumentum: organum (ὄργαναν: especially one that contains works or some artificial construction; hence the best expression for a musical instrument, ☞ Sen., Ep., 87, 11): macbina (machine for facilitating the movement or management of anything). Astronomical instruments, *supellex sideribus observandis: surgical instruments, ferramenta chirurgorum: stringed (musical) instruments, fides: a wind nstrument, cornu (horn): tibiae (double-flute): tuba (trumpet): Instrument-maker, instrumentorum opifex: artifex, qui organa fabricat.
  • Written or printed document, litterae: tabulae: instrumentum (document, etc., litis, Quint.; emtionis, Scaevola, Dig., 24, 1, 58). To draw up an instrument, litteris aliquid consignare.
GRG Georges (1)
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Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (8th ed., 1913/1918). Digitized data accessed from latin-dict.github.io and is in the public domain.
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Instrument,
I. Werkzeug: instrumentum.
orgănum (δργανον, bes. in seinen innern Teilen künstlich gebautes, dah. auch musikalisches I.).
chirurgische I., ferramenta chirurgorum.
Ist es = Blasinstrument, Saiteninstrument, s. d.
II. schriftlicher Aufsatz: litterae; tabulae.
ein I. über etw. aufsetzen, litteris alqd consignare.