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

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Contents (2 entries · 5 senses)
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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• generous:
    1. I. Of good breeding: gĕnĕrōsus: no one of more g. blood than thou, nemo generosior te, Hor. S. 1, 6, 2: Virg.: more fully, generosus sanguine, Ov. Met. 14, 698. Join: generosus ac nobilis, Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20. Fig.: g. wine, g. vinum, Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 18.
    2. II. Noble-minded, liberal:
      1. 1. gĕnĕrōsus: v. high-spirited: cf. also Quint. 5, 11, 3. (N.B.--Not to be used in sense of merely kind, liberal.)
      2. 2. bĕnignus (bountiful, kind): more g. than one's means allow, benignior quam res patitur, Cic. Off. 1, 14, 44: v. kind.
      3. 3. lībĕrālis, e (esp. with ref. to giving money): Sall.: Cic.: v. liberal.
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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• GENEROUS
Bountiful, etc., largus: liberalis (the former of interested, the latter of disinterested high-principled liberality [opposed to prodigus]; ☞ Cic., Off., 2, 16, 55): beneficus: benignus (benignus, PROP. with reference to kind feeling, but often = bountiful; ☞ Cic., Deiot., 9, 26): munificus (often making presents without expecting any return). (The words are found in this connection and order.) beneficus liberalisque: liberalis et beneficus: liberalis munificusque: munificus et liberalis: largus, beneficus, liberalis: pecuniae liberalis (Sall., Cat., 7): generosus: liberalis (of persons, and their mode of thinking): generosi spiritus (of noble sentiments, etc.): ingenuus (only of sentiments). ☞ SYN. in GENEROSITY.