Results for: base
English Latin
basesubstructio
base / pedestal / piercrepido
base of a kneecapbasis patellae
base, foundationsubstructio
basis; basebasis, is, f
but all his family and the entire neighborhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside (Horace)sed notat hunc omnis domus et vicinia tota, introrsum turpem, speciosum pelle decora
foundation, base / pedestal / piercrepido
horn basebasis cornus
I account it a great honor that I have pleased a man like you, who knows so well to discriminate between the base and the honorable (Horace)magnum hoc ego duco quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum
I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable (Phædrus)formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos
it is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! (Seneca)turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire; quanto turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire!
let us refrain from doing ill; for one powerful reason, lest our children should follow our crimes; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved (Juvenal)abstineas igitur damnandis; hujus enim vel una potens ratio est, ne crimina nostra sequantur ex nobis geniti; quoniam dociles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus
no one ever became suddenly base (i.e., became evil all at once) (Juvenal)nemo repente fuit (or fit) turpissimus
self-praise is baselaus propria sordet
that virtue which is unconscious of a base repulse, shines with unstained honors (Horace)virtus, repulsæ nescia sordidæ, intaminatis fulget honoribus
 

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