Questions tagged [synonyms]

What is the difference between cunctus and totus? Dictionaries give the same meaning for both (all, whole, entirety), but in usage I see certain tendencies. For example, in ecclesiastical Latin, when speaking of the entire world, there seems to be a…

Is there a difference between postremo and postea which both seem to mean afterwards? I did look in Doderlein's Handbook and he doesn't cover these two words.

Latin has some pairs of verbs that are both spelled in a similar way and mean similar things. One example of this is cano and canto. Are these words just synonyms or do they have a different meaning or usage than each other?

In the English language, we might write the following question: "what does the word dog mean"? What is the Latin word for "meaning"? By "meaning" I mean the "definition of a spoken or written word" I am not looking for the Latin word for: a…