"discrimen" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /disˈkriː.men/ [Classical], [d̪ɪs̠ˈkriːmɛn] [Classical], /disˈkri.men/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [d̪isˈkriːmen] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From discernō (“set apart, differentiate, decide”) + -men (noun-forming suffix). First attested (indirectly) in the fragments of satirist Lucilius’s (2nd century BCE) work. Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*krey-}}, {{suffix|la|discernō|-men|pos2=noun-forming suffix|t1=set apart, differentiate, decide}} discernō (“set apart, differentiate, decide”) + -men (noun-forming suffix), {{B.C.E.|nodots=1}} BCE, {{BC}} BCE Head templates: {{la-noun|discrīmen<3>}} discrīmen n (genitive discrīminis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|discrīmen<3>}} Forms: discrīmen [canonical, neuter], discrīminis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], discrīmen [nominative, singular], discrīmina [nominative, plural], discrīminis [genitive, singular], discrīminum [genitive, plural], discrīminī [dative, singular], discrīminibus [dative, plural], discrīmen [accusative, singular], discrīmina [accusative, plural], discrīmine [ablative, singular], discrīminibus [ablative, plural], discrīmen [singular, vocative], discrīmina [plural, vocative]
  1. distinction, difference Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-hZft8JQp
  2. distinction, difference
    (Late Latin, figurative, extremely rare, only in work cited) discord, controversy, quarrel
    Tags: Late-Latin, declension-3, figuratively, rare
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-Kgc6b2Cv Categories (other): Late Latin, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension, Latin terms suffixed with -men Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 31 9 14 1 32 11 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 6 22 21 19 6 10 17 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -men: 2 36 7 13 7 25 10
  3. division, separation
    (cosmetics) parting (of hair)
    Tags: declension-3 Categories (topical): Cosmetics
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-31stdYjT Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 6 22 21 19 6 10 17 Topics: cosmetics, lifestyle
  4. division, separation
    (cosmetics, extremely rare) hairpin, bodkin that parts the hair
    Tags: declension-3, rare Categories (topical): Cosmetics
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-SbhWs9qz Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 31 9 14 1 32 11 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 6 22 21 19 6 10 17 Topics: cosmetics, lifestyle
  5. division, separation Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-xE1t5Euw
  6. decision, judgement Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-kJyAJkDp Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 31 9 14 1 32 11
  7. crisis, hazard, danger, risk Tags: declension-3 Synonyms: perīculum
    Sense id: en-discrimen-la-noun-RC880kpL Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 31 9 14 1 32 11 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the third declension: 6 22 21 19 6 10 17
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: descrīmen (english: Epigraphic Latin) Derived forms: discrīminō

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          "english": "“and he loved everybody; for just as a white line\nmakes no distinction or sign―”",
          "ref": "4th C. CE, Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, book 4, in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, W. M. Lindsay (editor), Leipzig 1904, volume II, page 35, lines 29–30",
          "text": "Discrīmen rūrsum sēparātiō, ā discernendō, […] Lūcīlius lib. XXIX:\net amābat omnēs; nam ut discrīmen nōn facit,\nneque sīgnat līnea alba\nDiscrīmen, again, means “distinction”, from distinguishing. […] Lucilius in book XXIX:",
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          "english": "For “city” and “Rome” are not the same, since “city” is a word, “Rome” a name, which distinction some observe when teaching these principles, and some not.",
          "ref": "45 BCE – 43 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 10.20(19) in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Georg Goetz and Friederic Schell (editors), Leipzig 1910, page 178, lines 7–9",
          "text": "Nōn enim idem oppidum et Rōma, cum oppidum sit vocābulum, Rōma nōmen, quōrum discrīmen in hīs reddendīs ratiōnibus aliī discernunt, aliī nōn."
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          "english": "This unclean world conglobates the double differences of good\nand evil, but the heavens serve the Lord alone.",
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          "english": "They are said to get wounded, to be tormented, to wage war amongst themselves in the heat of their raging quarrels.",
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          "english": "Should the parting be arranged, praise the parting.",
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          "text": "Conpositum discrīmen erit, discrīmina laudā."
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          "ref": "4th–5th C. CE, Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 11.144",
          "roman": "Discrīminat means “separates”: whence also the discrīmen of a woman’s head is called, because it divides the head with gold.",
          "text": "Discrīminat id est dīvidit: unde et discrīmen capitis muliēbris dīcitur, ex eō quod caput aurō discernat.",
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        {
          "english": "But whence should this come to me, between whom and the enemy\na wall and a closed gate make a very small separation?",
          "ref": "12 CE – 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1.38.61–62",
          "roman": "discrīmen mūrus clausaque porta facit?",
          "text": "Unde sed hoc nōbīs, minimum quōs inter et hostem"
        },
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          "english": "The northern limits of Asia Minor have a narrow flank, a tongue,\nwhich the Caspian Sea and the waters of the Black Sea create\nin the middle: this place is said to be the separation\nof Europe and Asia, distinguising the country from the fields.",
          "ref": "5th C. CE, Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276",
          "roman": "Eurōpae atque Asiae disiungēns rūribus arva.",
          "text": "Fīnibus est Asiae latus artum lingua supernīs,\nCaspia quam mediam faciunt atque aequora pontī\nEuxīnī: locus hic discrīmen dīcitur esse",
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          "english": "For there is no counsel in the masses, no reason, no judgement, no diligence, and the wise have always called tolerable what the people have done, not always to be praised.",
          "ref": "54 BCE, Cicero, Pro Plancio 4.9",
          "text": "Nōn est enim cōnsilium in volgō, nōn ratiō, non discrīmen, non dīligentia, semperque sapientēs ea quae populus fēcisset ferenda, nōn semper laudanda dīxerunt."
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          "english": "He, doubting his own safety and everyone else’s, exits the tent unarmed: he sees that the enemy is close and the entire situation is in greatest crisis, and takes up arms from his nearest and guards the gate.",
          "ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.38.2",
          "text": "Hic diffīsus suae atque omnium salūtī inermis ex tabernāculō prōdit: videt imminēre hostēs atque in summō esse rem discrīmine: capit arma ā proximīs atque in portā cōnsistit."
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          "english": "Go now and rejoice in the looks of your boy, whom\ngreater dangers await.",
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          "roman": "maiōra expectant discrīmina.",
          "text": "Ī nunc et iuvenis speciē laetāre tuī, quem"
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          "roman": "Fuitque diēs illa tenebrārum et discrīminis, tribulātiōnis et angustiae, et ingēns formīdō super terram.",
          "text": "4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Esther 11:8",
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      "form": "discrīmina",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīminis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīminum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīminī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīminibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīmen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīmina",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīmine",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīminibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīmen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "discrīmina",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "discrīmen<3>"
      },
      "expansion": "discrīmen n (genitive discrīminis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "discrīmen<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“and he loved everybody; for just as a white line\nmakes no distinction or sign―”",
          "ref": "4th C. CE, Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, book 4, in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, W. M. Lindsay (editor), Leipzig 1904, volume II, page 35, lines 29–30",
          "text": "Discrīmen rūrsum sēparātiō, ā discernendō, […] Lūcīlius lib. XXIX:\net amābat omnēs; nam ut discrīmen nōn facit,\nneque sīgnat līnea alba\nDiscrīmen, again, means “distinction”, from distinguishing. […] Lucilius in book XXIX:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "For “city” and “Rome” are not the same, since “city” is a word, “Rome” a name, which distinction some observe when teaching these principles, and some not.",
          "ref": "45 BCE – 43 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 10.20(19) in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Georg Goetz and Friederic Schell (editors), Leipzig 1910, page 178, lines 7–9",
          "text": "Nōn enim idem oppidum et Rōma, cum oppidum sit vocābulum, Rōma nōmen, quōrum discrīmen in hīs reddendīs ratiōnibus aliī discernunt, aliī nōn."
        },
        {
          "english": "This unclean world conglobates the double differences of good\nand evil, but the heavens serve the Lord alone.",
          "ref": "c.''' 500 CE, Prudentius, Hamartigenia 8–9",
          "roman": "hic mundus, Dominō sed caelum obtemperat ūnī.",
          "text": "Bīna bonī atque malī glomerat discrīmina sordēns"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "distinction, difference"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "distinction",
          "distinction"
        ],
        [
          "difference",
          "difference"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Late Latin",
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "They are said to get wounded, to be tormented, to wage war amongst themselves in the heat of their raging quarrels.",
          "ref": "Arnobius, Adversus nationes 4.33.7",
          "text": "Vulnerārī, vexārī, bella inter sē gerere furiālium memorantur ardōre discrīminum."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "distinction, difference",
        "discord, controversy, quarrel"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "distinction",
          "distinction"
        ],
        [
          "difference",
          "difference"
        ],
        [
          "discord",
          "discord"
        ],
        [
          "controversy",
          "controversy"
        ],
        [
          "quarrel",
          "quarrel"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "distinction, difference",
        "(Late Latin, figurative, extremely rare, only in work cited) discord, controversy, quarrel"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in work cited"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Late-Latin",
        "declension-3",
        "figuratively",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "la:Cosmetics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Should the parting be arranged, praise the parting.",
          "ref": "2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 2.303",
          "text": "Conpositum discrīmen erit, discrīmina laudā."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "division, separation",
        "parting (of hair)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "separation",
          "separation"
        ],
        [
          "cosmetics",
          "cosmetics"
        ],
        [
          "parting",
          "parting"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "division, separation",
        "(cosmetics) parting (of hair)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cosmetics",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "la:Cosmetics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "4th–5th C. CE, Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 11.144",
          "roman": "Discrīminat means “separates”: whence also the discrīmen of a woman’s head is called, because it divides the head with gold.",
          "text": "Discrīminat id est dīvidit: unde et discrīmen capitis muliēbris dīcitur, ex eō quod caput aurō discernat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "division, separation",
        "hairpin, bodkin that parts the hair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "separation",
          "separation"
        ],
        [
          "cosmetics",
          "cosmetics"
        ],
        [
          "hairpin",
          "hairpin"
        ],
        [
          "bodkin",
          "bodkin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "division, separation",
        "(cosmetics, extremely rare) hairpin, bodkin that parts the hair"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "rare"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "cosmetics",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But whence should this come to me, between whom and the enemy\na wall and a closed gate make a very small separation?",
          "ref": "12 CE – 13 CE, Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1.38.61–62",
          "roman": "discrīmen mūrus clausaque porta facit?",
          "text": "Unde sed hoc nōbīs, minimum quōs inter et hostem"
        },
        {
          "english": "The northern limits of Asia Minor have a narrow flank, a tongue,\nwhich the Caspian Sea and the waters of the Black Sea create\nin the middle: this place is said to be the separation\nof Europe and Asia, distinguising the country from the fields.",
          "ref": "5th C. CE, Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276",
          "roman": "Eurōpae atque Asiae disiungēns rūribus arva.",
          "text": "Fīnibus est Asiae latus artum lingua supernīs,\nCaspia quam mediam faciunt atque aequora pontī\nEuxīnī: locus hic discrīmen dīcitur esse",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "division, separation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "separation",
          "separation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "For there is no counsel in the masses, no reason, no judgement, no diligence, and the wise have always called tolerable what the people have done, not always to be praised.",
          "ref": "54 BCE, Cicero, Pro Plancio 4.9",
          "text": "Nōn est enim cōnsilium in volgō, nōn ratiō, non discrīmen, non dīligentia, semperque sapientēs ea quae populus fēcisset ferenda, nōn semper laudanda dīxerunt."
        },
        {
          "english": "The charge of recklessness, by which he thrived greatly, could be eased, because there never came to judgement whether he had acted recklessly.",
          "roman": "Audāciae quoque, quā maximē viguit, ratiō minuī potest, quia nunquam in discrīmen vēnit an temerē fēcisset.",
          "text": "1st C. CE, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great 4.9.23",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "decision, judgement"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "decision",
          "decision"
        ],
        [
          "judgement",
          "judgement"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He, doubting his own safety and everyone else’s, exits the tent unarmed: he sees that the enemy is close and the entire situation is in greatest crisis, and takes up arms from his nearest and guards the gate.",
          "ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.38.2",
          "text": "Hic diffīsus suae atque omnium salūtī inermis ex tabernāculō prōdit: videt imminēre hostēs atque in summō esse rem discrīmine: capit arma ā proximīs atque in portā cōnsistit."
        },
        {
          "english": "Go now and rejoice in the looks of your boy, whom\ngreater dangers await.",
          "ref": "c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 10.310–311",
          "roman": "maiōra expectant discrīmina.",
          "text": "Ī nunc et iuvenis speciē laetāre tuī, quem"
        },
        {
          "english": "That day was one of darkness and hazard, tribulation and hardship, and great panic was upon the earth.",
          "roman": "Fuitque diēs illa tenebrārum et discrīminis, tribulātiōnis et angustiae, et ingēns formīdō super terram.",
          "text": "4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Esther 11:8",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "crisis, hazard, danger, risk"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crisis",
          "crisis"
        ],
        [
          "hazard",
          "hazard"
        ],
        [
          "danger",
          "danger"
        ],
        [
          "risk",
          "risk"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "perīculum"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/disˈkriː.men/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d̪ɪs̠ˈkriːmɛn]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/disˈkri.men/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d̪isˈkriːmen]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "Epigraphic Latin",
      "word": "descrīmen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "discrimen"
}

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