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

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Contents (2 entries · 4 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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• groundless:
      1. 1. vānus (empty): g. fears, v. metus, Hor.: g. confidence, v. fides, Virg.: nor was the charge altogether g., nec tota ex vano criminatio erat, Liv. 33, 31, ad init.
      2. 2. falsus: g. anxiety, f. sollicitudo, Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 3: g. terrors, f. terrores, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 212: v. false.
      3. 3. fictus, commenticius: v. false, imaginary.
      4. 4. nūgātōrius (having nothing in it): a malicious and g. accusation, mala atque n. accusatio, Cic. R. Am. 15, 42. Phr.: a confidence which certainly was not utterly g., fiducia quae non de nihilo profecto concepta est, Liv. 30, 29, med.
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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• GROUNDLESS
(not tenable; e.g., assertion), rationi adversus (i. e., against reason or good sense): vanus (empty, unsubstantial; opposed to verus): futilis (frivolous): fictus: commenticius (invented, made up). (The words are found in this connection and order.) fictus (or futilis) et commenticius; also by circumlocution, qui (quae, quod) sine causa fit, etc., aliquid, cui nihil subest (which has no foundation of truth). A confidence which assuredly cannot be utterly groundless, fiducia quae non de nihilo profecto concepta est (Liv., 39, 29).