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Meaning of "lusus" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LUSUS

lusus  [ˈluːsəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LUSUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lusus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LUSUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Lusus

Lusus is the supposed son or companion of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and divine madness, to whom Portuguese national mythology attributed the foundation of ancient Lusitania and the fatherhood of its inhabitants, the Lusitanians, seen as the ancestors of the modern Portuguese people. Lusus thus has functioned in Portuguese culture as a founding myth. "Bold though these figures frown, yet bolder far These godlike heroes shin'd in ancient war. In that hoar sire, of mien serene, august, Lusus behold, no robber-chief unjust; His cluster'd bough--the same which Bacchus bore He waves, the emblem of his care of yore; The friend of savage man, to Bacchus dear, The son of Bacchus, or the bold compeer, What time his yellow locks with vine-leaves curl'd, The youthful god subdued the savage world, Bade vineyards glisten o'er the dreary waste, And humaniz'd the nations as he pass'd. Lusus, the lov'd companion of the god, In Hispania's fair bosom fix'd his last abode, Our kingdom founded, and illustrious reign'd In those fair lawns, the bless'd Elysium feign'd, Where, winding oft, the Guadiana roves, And. Douro murmurs through the flow'ry groves.

Definition of lusus in the English dictionary

The definition of lusus in the dictionary is a product of nature that deviates from the norm, a freak or mutant, usually as `lusus naturae'.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LUSUS


Amisus
əmiːsəs
casus
ˈkɑːsəs
Croesus
ˈkriːsəs
cursus
ˈkɜːsəs
excursus
ɛkˈskɜːsəs
metatarsus
ˌmɛtəˈtɑːsəs
Peloponnesus
ˌpɛləpəˈniːsəs
Rhesus
ˈriːsəs
tarsometatarsus
ˌtɑːsəʊˌmɛtəˈtɑːsəs
tarsus
ˈtɑːsəs
thyrsus
ˈθɜːsəs
tibiotarsus
ˌtɪbɪəʊˈtɑːsəs
versus
ˈvɜːsəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LUSUS

lustihead
lustihood
lustily
lustiness
lustless
lustra
lustral
lustrate
lustration
lustrative
lustre
lustreless
lustreware
lustring
lustrous
lustrously
lustrousness
lustrum
lusty
lusus naturae

WORDS THAT END LIKE LUSUS

baby Jesus
Caucasus
census
cissus
colossus
consensus
cupressus
Dionysus
Ephesus
Issus
Jesus
lapsus
lupus erythematosus
missus
narcissus
Pegasus
resus
risus
sus
the Caucasus

Synonyms and antonyms of lusus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lusus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LUSUS

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The translations of lusus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lusus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

lusus
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lusus
570 millions of speakers

English

lusus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

lusus
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

lusus
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Лузус
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lusus
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lusus
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lusus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lusus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

lusus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

lusus
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

lusus
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lusus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lusus
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

lusus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Lusus
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lusus
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Lusus
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lusus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Лузус
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lusus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lusus
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lusus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Lusus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lusus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lusus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LUSUS»

The term «lusus» is regularly used and occupies the 77.176 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LUSUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lusus

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LUSUS»

Discover the use of lusus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lusus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lusus
This book includes "Monte Genaro Epigrams", composed in hendecasyllabic pentameters which explores a landscape in central Italy and finds in it metaphors for language and forms of civility.
Robert Wells, 1999
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Lusus iste: Apuleius' Metamorphoses
It presents further observations of a reader who finds delight in the verbal entertainment, lusus, which Apuleius provides, not simply in the story he tells but also in its complex design and verbal texture.
Judith K. Krabbe, 2003
3
Lusus: [poems]
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Christopher Stone, 2010
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Arundines Cami; sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori, ...
Cam river Henry Drury. I coy. « ARUNDINES CAMI MUSARUM CANTABRIGIENSIUM LUSUS CANORI COLLEGIT ATQUE EDIDIT HENRICUS.
Cam river, Henry Drury, 1841
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Lusus Academici. A selection of translations, chiefly from ...
LUSUS. ACADEMICI. -+Sonnet. HALL I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date : Sometimes too hot the eye of  ...
Thomas Ansell MARSHALL, 1868
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Priapeia sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus or ...
Other Aldine editionsof Vergil do not contain such recueil, but this famous family of printers issued in1517 (and reprinted in15 34) Diversorum veterum poetarum in Priapum lusus, withother pieces falsely attributed toVergil. The workis also ...
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Arundines Cami, sive Musarum Cantabrigiensium Lusus canori; ...
Henry DRURY (Vicar of Bremhill.), Henry John HODGSON (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.) '7 v\ filmmhinss Qtami SIVE LUSUS CANORI Gnllzgit atquz z'bihit g1 / _ HENRICUS DRURJY, A.M. ' AIOBIDIA'DNUB WILNNE§5|B WLLIGH  ...
Henry DRURY (Vicar of Bremhill.), Henry John HODGSON (Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.), 1865
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Lusus Philologici. Ex Museo Gul. B. Macdonald. [Translations ...
William Bell MACDONALD. //a 6,41%. / ' LUSUS PHILOLOGIOI. EX MUSEO GUL. B. MACDONALD. 3i RAMMERSCALES, I85I. -
William Bell MACDONALD, 1851
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Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
My argument focuses on a broadening of the sources: extending from objects to selves and then, from selves to mankind in general, occasionally captured in the figure of the lusus naturae or wonder of nature. Here it is based on one figure, ...
Robert John Weston Evans, Alexander Marr, 2006
10
Virgil's Aeneid: A Reader's Guide
There had existed at Rome for some considerable time a tradition of an equestrian ceremony, a stylized cavalry performance by young men, known as “ the games of Troy,” lusus Troiae. Some modern scholars have supposed that the “Troia” in ...
David Ross, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LUSUS»

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Pollution Overtakes Monrovia Main Market Grounds
It can be recalled that the President of the Liberia Marketing Association Lusus Sloan named waste disposal as a major challenge that is ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
2
Atwood's new batch of tales takes readers down a dark path
Lusus Naturae” is reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe and Angela Carter, a short, surreal, horror tale about a female child with a disease that ... «Burlington Times News, Jun 15»
3
Diary of a Wimpy Kid translated into Latin by Vatican cleric goes on …
He translated “computer” into “computratum”, “video game” into the relatively straightforward “video lusus” and “heavy metal music” into the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
4
Bloodborne Review: The Vampire And The Gaslight
I stand over the lifeless body of a foul beast, it's grizzly mandibles lay motionless. The cobbled street runs red with putrid blood of the lusus ... «Bleeding Cool News, Apr 15»
5
Slender Man and the horrors of the adolescent imagination
... Slender Man's murderous “proxies,” the girls would earn entry into the mansion of the lusus naturae, this freak of nature, which they believed ... «Communities Digital News, Feb 15»
6
The Lusiads: Poets and Heroes
... while covering the history of the Portuguese- the race descended from Lusus, companion of Bacchus who discovered the land of Lusitania. «The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Jan 15»
7
Beer Guy: Expect treats at Winter Warmer brew fest
... or Die, Pearfigt, Cherry Saison, Heresy, BBL French Toast, Illusive and Dark, Poperinge Saison, Oblivion, Black Angel and Lusus Naturae. «Greenville News, Jan 15»
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North Tuddenham woodsman creates his very own folk music festival
Lusus. • The DooHickies. • The Baroness and the Bear. Attractions and demonstrations include: • Well stocked bar with real ales, ciders and ... «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Jan 15»
9
The great darkness
It is in this story (and in 'Lusus Naturae', where a young girl with a hideous congenital deformity is forced by her parents to fake her own death) ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
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Asheville's Wicked Weed Brewing is the place to see experimental …
Another standout, this time on the funky side, was Lusus Naturae. Our server let us know that's the Latin translation of "freak of nature," Wicked ... «Charleston City Paper, Dec 14»

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