humilis
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of humilis
< New Latin, Latin: low, humble
Example Sentences
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They used DNA to correctly identify both snails, Galba cubensis and Galba humilis, and the flatworm.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2024
A recent paper on a newly discovered species of marmoset, Callithrix humilis, shows the monkey at age two months: studious eyes, a tight, alert face and an aureole of gray and white hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the holds of freighters from South American ports that put into Genoa about 13 years ago were some unlisted travelers �small tropical ants named Iridomyrmex humilis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rura colit nemo, mollescunt colla iuvencis, Non humilis curvis purgatur vinea rastris, 41Non falx attenuat frondatorum arboris umbram, 40Non glaebam prono convellit vomere taurus, Squalida desertis rubigo infertur aratris.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Agilis, docilis, gracilis, facilis, humilis, similis, change is into llimus, in the superlative degree.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by Leech, John
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