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

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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fīle: neut voc sg

• fīlum, i. n. (also filus, i, m., acc. to Arn. 1, 36 dub., plur. heterocl., fili, Luc. 6, 460) [for figlum, v. figo], a thread of any thing woven (of linen or woolen cloth, a cobweb, etc.).
  1. I. Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 113 Müll.; Enn. ap. Non. 116, 6 (Ann. v. 259 ed. Vahl.); Verg. A. 6, 30; Ov. A. A. 3, 445; id. M. 4, 36; Mart. 6, 3, 5; Cels. 7, 16: lumen candelae cujus tempero filum, wick, Juv. 3, 287: tenuia aranei, a web, Lucr. 3, 383: tineae, Ov. M. 15, 372.—Poet., of the thread of life spun by the Fates: sororum fila trium, Hor. C. 2, 3, 16; Verg. A. 10, 815; Ov. M. 2, 654; id. Tr. 5, 10, 45; Sil. 4, 28; Mart. 10, 5, 10 al.— Prov.: pendere filo (tenui), to hang by a thread, for to be in great danger: hac noctu filo pendebit Etruria tota, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4, § 18 (Ann. v. 153 ed. Vahl.): omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo, Ov. P. 4, 3, 35; Val. Max. 6, 4, 1.—
      1. 2. In partic., the fillet of wool wound round the upper part of the flamen's cap, similar to the στέμμα of the Greeks; hence, in gen., a priest's fillet: APICVLVM, filum, quo flamines velatum apicem gerunt, Paul. ex Fest. p. 23 Müll.: legatus capite velato filo (lanae velamen est), Audi, Juppiter, inquit, etc., Liv. 1, 32, 6: filo velatus, Tib. 1, 5, 15.—
    1. B. Transf. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
      1. 1. Of any thing slender and drawn out like a thread, a string, cord, filament, fibre: tractat inauratae consona fila lyrae, the strings, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 60; so, lyrae, id. M. 5, 118: sonantia, id. ib. 10, 89: croci, i. e. the stamen, id. F. 1, 342: foliorum exilitas usque in fila attenuata, Plin. 21, 6, 16, § 30; 11, 15, 15, § 39. —
      2. 2. Plur., shreds, slices, remnants: fila sectivi porri, Juv. 14, 133: porris fila resecta suis, Mart. 11, 52: fila Tarentini graviter redolentia porri edisti, id. 13, 18.—
      3. 3. I. q. crassitudo, the density, compactness, compact shape, or, in gen., contour, form, shape of an object: forma quoque hinc solis debet filumque videri, Lucr. 5, 571, v. Lachm. ad h. 1.; cf. id. 5, 581; 2, 341; 4, 88: mulieris, Plaut. Merc. 4, 4, 15: corporis, Varr. L. L. 10, § 4 Müll.; Gell. 1, 9, 2; Amm. 14, 11, 28: forma atque filo virginali, id. 14, 4, 2: ingeniosus est et bono filo, Petr. 46.—
  2. II. Trop. (cf. the preced. no.), of speech, texture, sort, quality, nature, style (class.): ego hospiti veteri et amico munusculum mittere (volui) levidense, crasso filo, cujusmodi ipsius solent esse munera, i. e. of coarse texture, Cic. Fam. 9, 12, 2; cf.: argumentandi tenue filum, id. Or. 36, 124: tenui deducta poëmata filo, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 225; cf.: gracili connectere carmina filo, Col. poët. 10, 227: paulo uberiore filo, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 93: orationis, id. ib. 3, 26, 103: aliud quoddam filum orationis tuae (= oratio uberior), id. Lael. 7, 25.
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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fīle: neut voc sg

• fīlum, ī, n.,
1. fil : Varro L. 5, 113 ; sororum fila trium Hor. O. 2, 3, 16, le fil des trois sœurs [les Parques] || [prov.] pendere filo Enn. d. Macr. Sat. 1, 4, 18, ne tenir qu'à un fil (être en grand danger), cf. Ov. P. 4, 3, 35 || filament [v. apiculum] enroulé autour du bonnet du flamine, comme le στέμμα des Grecs : Tib. 1, 5, 15 ; Liv. 1, 32, 6 ; P. Fest. 23 || fibre : Plin. 21, 30 || toile d'araignée : Lucr. 3, 383 || cordes de la lyre : Ov. Am. 1, 8, 60
2. [fig.] contexture, tissu, nature : uberiore filo Cic. de Or. 2, 93, d'un style plus abondant (d'une trame plus dense), cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 225 ; argumentandi tenue filum Cic. Or. 124, argumentation de mince contexture ; aliud filum orationis Cic. Læl. 25, discours d'une autre sorte || traits, figure, forme [d'un objet] : Lucr. 5, 589 ; 571 ; [d'une pers.] Varro L. 10, 4 ; Pl. Merc. 755 ; Gell. 1, 9, 2 ; Petr. 46, 3.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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fīle: neut voc sg

FILVM, i. n. it. FILVS. i. teste Arnob. 1 p. 36. […]
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FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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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• file (subs.):
    1. I. For receiving papers: perh. filum [cui inseruntur schedae (schedulae) ad conservandas eas]: or scapus, a kind of roller for papers: cf. Plin. 13, 12, 23, ad fin.
    2. II. In milit. sense; a line of troops in depth: ordo, ĭnis, m.: Caes.: Cic.: v. rank. Phr.: rank and f., milites.
    3. III. The tool so called:
      1. 1. līma: the viper bit the f., vipera l. momordit, Phaedr.: to polish anything with the f., lima aliquid polire, Plin. Fig.: f.-work, i. e. elaboration, labor limae, Hor. A. P. 291.
      2. 2. scŏbīna: used by carpenters, as the lima by smiths: Varr. L. L. 7, 3, 68, scobina fabrilis lima est: cf. Plin. 11, 37, 68.
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• file (v.):
    1. I. To put papers upon a f.: perh. *schedas filo inserere, in scapo involvere: v. file (subs.)
    2. II. To rub with the tool so called:
      1. 1. līmo, 1: to f. precious stones, gemmas l., Plin.
      2. 2. pŏlio, 4 (implying the use of a fine file): v. preced. art. (III.); and to polish.
    3. III. To bring an action against: intendo, 3: v. action.
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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• FILE
1.
  • s. A thread, filum: linum. [Vid: THREAD.]
  • Papers filed on a string. (The Romans, for that purpose, used the “scapus “[a sort of rolling-pin] to collect or wrap papers round, which latter was called “volumen”).
  • A line of troops, ordo. Rank and file, milites gregarii (but only in a depreciating sense; as milites alone = “common soldiers;” opposed to officers).
  • List of soldiers, etc., index (general term for catalogue): numeri (of soldiers; for which matricula was used late in time of emperors, Torrent., Suet., Vesp. 6).
  • A mechanical instrument, lima; to rub or smooth with a file, lima persequi: perpolire.
2.
  • v. To put on a string, inserere lino (e.g., pearls; Tert., Hub. Mul., 9, “margaritas inserere lino”): resticulam or resticulas perserere per etc. (to run a string through anything, in order to suspend the object afterward by it; e.g., resticulas per ficos maturas perserere, Varr., R.R., 1, 41, 5).
  • To file a bill in a court of justice, [Vid: “bring an ACTION”].
  • To rub down with a file [Vid. FILE, substantive].
  • To file off, delimare (if with af, lima): descobinare (if with a rasp, scobina): also lima polire, PROP. and IMPROP.
3. v. INTRANS., perhaps in acie procedere.