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Definition: Vergil |
VergilNoun1. A Roman poet; author of the epic poem `Aeneid' (70-19 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Vergil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: VergilSynonyms: Publius Vergilius Maro (n), Virgil (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Vergil |
| Specialty definitions using "Vergil": King of Misrule. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Vergil" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vergil" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names related to "Vergil." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Vergil | Male | English | Virgil |
| Virgilio | Male | Italian | Virgil |
| Virgilio | Male | Portuguese | Virgil |
| Virgilio | Male | Spanish | Virgil |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vergil | 18 |
homer vergil | 3 |
vergil aeneid | 3 |
orpheus translation vergil | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Vergil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | Î'ιÏγίλιοσ (Virgil). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ergilvay Vergilius. (various references) Fyrsil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Vergil": overgild, overgilded, overgilding, overgilds, overgilt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: ervil, giver, liger, liver, livre, viler. | |
-2 letters: evil, girl, give, lier, lire, live, riel, rile, rive, veil, vier, vile, virl. | |
-3 letters: erg, gel, gie, ire, leg, lei, lev, lie, reg, rei, rev, rig, veg, vie, vig. | |
-4 letters: el, er, li, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: veliger, virgule. | |
+2 letters: divulger, lawgiver, levering, overgild, overgilt, raveling, reliving, reveling, reviling, veligers, veluring, villager, virgules. | |
+3 letters: almsgiver, clavering, divulgers, driveling, graveling, groveling, inveigler, laveering, lawgivers, marveling, overgilds, overlight, overlying, privilege, ravelings, ravelling, relieving, resolving, revaluing, revealing, revelling, revolting, revolving, silvering, slavering, slivering, traveling, veeringly, viceregal, villagers, villagery, vulgarise, vulgarize. | |
+4 letters: almsgivers, delivering, drivelling, forgivable, galvanizer, gravelling, grievously, grovelling, inveiglers, leveraging, marvelling, overflight, overflying, overgilded, overlading, overlaying, overlights, overliving, overloving, overplying, overruling, palavering, prevailing, privileged, privileges, ravellings, reavailing, regulative, replevying, rivetingly, shriveling, starveling, travelling, unraveling, velarizing, virologies, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarized, vulgarizer, vulgarizes, waveringly. | |
+5 letters: aggrievedly, bedriveling, cavaliering, desilvering, divergently, everlasting, galvanizers, grovelingly, lavendering, observingly, overbilling, overblowing, overboiling, overcalling, overcooling, overfilling, overflights, overflowing, overgilding, overhauling, overholding, overindulge, overkilling, overlapping, overleaping, overlending, overletting, overlighted, overloading, overlooking, overlording, overmelting, overmilking, overplaying, oversalting, overselling, overtalking, overtoiling, overvaluing, privileging, pulverising, pulverizing, quaveringly, quiveringly, replevining, reprovingly, resilvering, revaluating, revealingly, revoltingly, shrivelling, sovereignly, starvelings, surveilling, unnervingly, unravelling, vainglories, verbalizing, vernalizing, viceregally, villageries, vulgarities, vulgarizers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 72 67 69 6C |
| 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)01010110 01100101 01110010 01100111 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e r g i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0072 0067 0069 006C |
| 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)567184737578 |
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