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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Davus Davus sum, non dipus (I am a plain, simple fellow, and no solver of riddles, like dipus). The words are from Terence's Andria, i. 2, 23. Non te credas Davum ludere. Don't imagine you are deluding Davus. "Do you see any white in my eye?" I am not such a fool as you think me to be. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "DAVUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Artlessness | Phrase: Davus sum non Oedipus; liberavi animam meam; "as frank as rain on cherry blossoms". |
Dullness | Phrase: davus sum non Aedipus; deadly dull and boring, DDB. |
Imbecility Folly | Phrase: Davus sum non; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" clitellae bovi sunt impositae; "fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon; "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read"; "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "DAVUS": Davus sum non Oedipus. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: vaus. | |
-2 letters: ads, sad, sau, vas, vau. | |
-3 letters: ad, as, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: avulsed, unsaved. | |
+3 letters: couvades, devalues, disvalue, savoured, unshaved, vanadous, viaducts. | |
+4 letters: adjustive, adjuvants, auditives, ayurvedas, disvalued, disvalues, duratives, misvalued, unadvised, vanadiums, vanguards, vastitude. | |
+5 letters: adenovirus, adventures, boulevards, cadaverous, devaluates, dissuasive, disvaluing, endeavours, outsavored, oversauced, unravished, vanquished, vastitudes, visualised, visualized, vouchsafed, vulcanised, vulgarised, waveguides. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 56 55 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- ...- ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01000001 01010110 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A V U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 0056 0055 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3835565553 |
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