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Significatio vocis vīs | Babel Free

Nomen femininum CEFR C2
[ˈwiːs]

Definitiones

  1. force, power, strength, vigor, faculty, potency
  2. strength, might (physical)
    declension-3, in-plural
  3. violence, assault
  4. meaning, significance, nature, essence and value of a word
  5. assault, affront
  6. quantity, flood
  7. energy, force
    New-Latin, declension-3

Aequivalentia

English being force might power

Exempla

Sit vīs tēcum.”

May the Force be with you.

“Ō et erat longē mea quidem sententia, / quī imperium crēdat gravius esse et stabilius / vī quod fit quam illud quod amīcitia adiungitur.”

Oh and it’s really going too far, in my opinion, when anyone believes a command which is made by force to be more weighty and durable than that which is joined with affection.

omnibus vīribus”

with all his strength; with all her might; with all their force

“the Wikipedia page Martin Luther on Catholic church reform Nōn vī, sed verbō.”

Not through violence, but the word.

“ad vim atque ad arma confugere

appeal to violence and fighting

Gradus CEFR

C2
Peritia
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR C2 — gradus peritia.
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