multitudo
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
Latin > English
multitudo multitudinis N F :: multitude, great number; crowd; rabble, mob
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
multĭtūdo: ĭnis, f. multus,
I a great number, multitude (class.; cf.: copia, vis, magnitudo).
I In gen.: nationes, quae numero hominum ac multitudine ipsā poterant in provincias nostras redundare, Cic. Prov. Cons. 12, 31: navium, Nep. Hann. 10, 4: argenti facti, Varr. ap. Non. 465, 27: sacrificiorum, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 71.—
II In partic.
A Of people, a great number, a crowd, multitude: tanta multitudo lapides ac tela coniciebat, ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Nep. Milt. 3, 5; id. Arist. 1, 3: multitudine domum circumdare, Nep. Hann. 12, 4: multitudine civium factiones valuere, Sall. C. 51, 40: prima lux mediocrem multitudinem ante moenia ostendit, Liv. 7, 12, 3.—In plur., multitudes: partim exquirebant duces multitudinum, Sall. C. 50, 1.—
2 Of the common people, the crowd, the multitude (cf. turba): ex errore imperitae multitudinis, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 65: sed multitudinem haec maxime allicit, id. Fin. 1, 7, 25: multitudinis judicium, id. Tusc. 2, 26, 63; id. Clu. 29, 59; id. Sest. 58, 124: credula, Just. 2, 8, 9.—
B In gram.: numerus multitudinis, or simply multitudo, the plural number, the plural: quod alia vocabula singularia sint solum ut cicer, alia multitudinis solum ut scalae ... multitudinis vocabula sunt, etc., Varr. L. L. 9, § 63 Müll.: cur mel et vinum, atque id genus cetera numerum multitudinis capiunt, lacte non capiat, Gell. 19, 8, 13.—In plur., Varr. L. L. 9, § 65 Müll.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
multĭtūdō,⁶ inis, f. (multus), multitude, grand nombre : Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 87 ; Prov. 31 ; de Or. 3, 71 || foule de gens, multitude : Cæs. G. 2, 6, 2 ; Nep. Milt. 3, 5 || la foule, le vulgaire : Cic. Off. 1, 65 || [gramm.] le pluriel : Varro L. 9, 63 ; Gell. 19, 8, 13.
Latin > German (Georges)
multitūdo, inis, f. (multus), die Menge, große Anzahl, überlegene Zahl, Masse (Ggstz. paucitas), I) im allg.: hominum, Cic.: aquae, Cic.: litterarum (Briefe), Cic.: navium, Nep.: argenti facti, Varro fr.: beneficiorum, Cic. – II) insbes.: A) v. Menschen, 1) die Menge, der große Haufe (Ggstz. paucitas), Cic. u.a.: multitudines, einzelne Volkshaufen, Sall.: tantarum gentium multitudines, Hieron. epist. 60, 4. – 2) die große Menge, der große Haufe, d.i. das gemeine Volk, der Pöbel, imperita, Cic.: credula, Iustin. – B) als gramm. t. t., die Mehrzahl, der Plural, Varro LL. (auch im Plur.). – casu multitudinis recto, Nigid. b. Gell. 13, 26 (25), 4: numerum multitudinis capere, den Plural bekommen, Gell.
