Race

English-Latin I.

race, n.

1. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
   • genus (-eris, neut.)
2. Company; herd; breed.
   • gens (gentis, fem.)
3. botany A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
   • genus (-eris, neut.)
4. Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
   • sapor (-oris, masc.)

English-Latin II.

race, n.

1. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
   • curriculum (-i, neut.)
   • cursus (-us, masc.)
2. Swift progress; rapid course; a running.
   • cursus (-us, masc.)
3. The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing.
   • certamen (-inis, neut.)
   • cursus (-us, masc.)
4. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
   • certamen (-inis, neut.)
   • cursus (-us, masc.)
   • curriculum (-i, neut.)
5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides.
   • impetus (-us, masc.)
6. The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
   • canalis (-is, masc.)
7. machinery A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
   • canalis (-is, masc.)
   • cursus (-us, masc.)

race, v. intrans.

1. To run swiftly; to contend in a race.
   • certo (-are, -avi, -atum)
   • contendo (-ere, -i, contentum)

English-Latin III.

race, n.

1. A root.
   • radix (-icis, fem.)