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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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• son:
    1. I. In reference to a parent:
      1. 1. fīlius (voc. sing. fīlī): passim. Fig.: a s. of fortune (or fortune's favourite): fortunae f., Hor. S. 2, 6, 49. with which cf. gallinae filius albae (the Fr. "le fils de la poule blanche"), Juv. 13, 141: a s. of mother earth (= an obscure, mean person), terrae f., Cic. Att. 1, 13, 4: Pers. 6, 59. Dimin.: a little or dear s., fīliŏlus, Cic.: Plaut.: see also boy.
      2. 2. expr. by a patronymic (in the poets): e. g. s. of Priamus, Priamides: s. of Atreus, Atrides: v. L. G. §§ 184, 609.
      3. 3. expr. simply by a gen. of the father (since a son may be said to belong to a father): Hasdrubal, s. of Gisgo, H. Gisgonis, Liv. 25, 37, ad med.
      4. 4. nātus (or gnātus: solely poet.): Virg.: Ov.
      5. 5. vĭrīle sĕcus (indecl.), vĭrīlis sexus, stirps vĭrīlis: I had one little daughter, have never had a s., filiolam ego unam habui, virile secus nunquam ullum habui, Pl. Rud. 1, 2, 19: supposing he had left no s., si is virilem sexum non reliquisset, Nep. Ages. 1: Amulius compasses the death of his brother's s.s, A. stirpem fratris virilem interimit, Liv. 1, 3, in fin.
      6. 6. prōgĕnies, ēi (poet., very rarely = filius, being properly a collect. subs.): Sarpedon, my s., S., mea progenies, Virg. Aen. 10, 471: she says that Bacchus is not the s. of Jove, Bacchum progeniem negat esse Jovis, Ov. M. 4, 3. Simly. genus is used: daring s. of Iapetus, audax Iapeti g., Hor. Od. 1, 3, 27: Virg.: cf. also this use of suboles, proles, and sanguis by the poets: the illustrious s. of Anchises and Venus, clarus Anchisae Venerisque sanguis, Hor. Carm. S. 50: cf. id. Od. 4, 3, 14: Virg. Aen. 4, 236.
      7. 7. ălumnus (foster-s.): Fig.: a soldier's s., legionum a., Tac. A. 1, 44: cf. castrorum filius (a title of Caligula, from his having been brought up in the camp), Suet. Cal. 22, init.: that Italy might see her own s. branded with the greatest torture of slavery, (ut) Italia alumnum suum servitutis extremo summoque supplicio affixum videret, Cic. Verr. 5, 66, 169.
    2. II. In reference to an ancestor: prōgĕnies, stirps, genus, etc.: or expr. by participles, ortus, sătus, ēdĭtus, gĕnĭtus, nātus, with abl.: v. offspring, descendant, descended. Sometimes also patronymics are used in a wide sense: e. g. the s.s of Aeneas (= the Romans), Aenĕădae, Lucr.: the s.s of Romulus (in same sense as preced.), Rōmŭlĭdae, Virg.
    3. III. As title of Our Lord: S. of man, Filius hominis, Vulg. Matt. xxv. 31, etc.: S. of God, Filius Dei, Vulg. Acts ix. 20, etc. Phr.: the elder s., e duobus filiis major, Caes. B. C. 3, 108: the eldest s., maximus natu or maximus: v. old, I., 2.: firstborn: simly. the younger, youngest s., minor natu, minimus natu: every mother's s. (= all, to a man), ad unum omnes, Cic. Am. 23, 86: to kill every mother's s., occidione s. occisione occidere, Cic.: Liv.: cf. ad internecionem caedere, Liv. 9, 26, init.: a s. of free parents, oriundus ab ingenuis, Cic.: s. of Jupiter, quem Jupiter genuit, id.: like a good s., pie: to be regarded as a s., haberi in liberum loco, Cic. Verr. 1, 15, 40: to adopt one as a s., aliquem filium instituere, id. pro Dom. 14, 37 (see also to adopt, adoptive): to be delivered of a s., filium parere.
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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(with reference to parents), filius (opposed to puella): (with reference to sex) puer: sexus virilis (also of several sons, Nep.): stirps virilis (also of all the sons of a family collectively, Liv.): so also suboles virilis (Tac.). ☞ In the poets, and also in Quint., we find natus or gnatus for filius, but it is never thus used as a substantive by the best prose writers; so that we cannot say natus meus, tuus, etc., for filius meus, tuus, etc.; or nati parentum for liberi parentum. In Cic., Amic., 8, 27, and De Fin., 5, 25, 65, natus is used as a participle. A young son, little son, filiolus; filius parvus: to have a son, another son, filio, filiolo augeri (Cic.); sexu, stirpe virili augeri (after Liv. and Tac.): to be anybody’s son, aliquo natum, prognatum esse (Liv.); aliquo ortum esse (Cic.): to lose a son, filium amittere, perdere: to leave no son, sexum virilem non relinquere (Nep.).