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Meaning of pulvis | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈpʊɫ.wɪs]

Definitions

  1. dust, powder, ashes
    declension-3, feminine, masculine, sometimes
  2. an arena, place of contest
    declension-3, feminine, figuratively, masculine, sometimes
  3. toil, effort, labor
    declension-3, feminine, masculine, sometimes

Equivalents

English powder

Examples

“‘mittite mē in Tiberim, Tiberīnīs vectus ut undīs”

“Release [my body] into the Tiber [River], so that, carried by the waves of the Tiber, I may go as lifeless dust to the Inachian shore.”

“pulvis es et in pulverem revertēris.”

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (King James ver.)

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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