gaza1
Meaning
- femininetreasury
- femininetreasure, riches
Adpārent rārī nantēs in gurgite vastō, arma virum, tabulaeque, et Trōia gaza per undās. [These things] could be seen, scattered – [men] swimming in the vast abyss, men’s weaponry, and also planks [from the ships], and Trojan treasure – throughout the waves.
(The Trojan fleet incurs devastating losses during the storm at sea. Here, “arma” would mean shields, helmets, and miscellaneous equipment capable of floating; “virum” is a genitive plural form.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.118–119 - femininewealth
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Divitiæ · Opes · Gazæ · Locuples · Opulentus · Copiosus
1. Divitiæ and gazæ denote riches quite generally, as possessions and the means of satisfying one’s wishes of any sort, whereas opes, as the means of attaining higher ends, of aggrandizing one’s self, and of acquiring and maintaining influence. Divitiæ (from δεύειν) denotes the riches of a private person, like πλοῦτος; opes (opulentus, πολύς), the instrument of the statesman, or of the ambitious in political life; gazæ, the treasure of a king or prince, like θησαυροί. 2. Dives means rich in opp. to poor, Quintil. v. 10, 26, like πλούσιος; locuples (loculos πλήθων), well-off, in opp. to egens, egenus, Cic. Planc. 35. Ros. Com. 8, like ἀφνειός; opulentus and copiosus, opulent, in opp. to inops, Cic. Parad. 6. Tac. H. iii. 6, like εὔπορος. (v. 81.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gaza | gazae |
| genitive | gazae | gazārum |
| dative | gazae | gazīs |
| accusative | gazam | gazās |
| ablative | gazā | gazīs |
| vocative | gaza | gazae |
regia, Nep. Dat. 5; cf.: gaza (sic Persae aerarium vocant), Mel. 1, 11, 3: pecunia regia, quam gazam Persae vocant, Curt. 3, 13, 4; 5, 1, 3; 5, 6, 5 al. —qui ab auro gazaque regia manus cohibere possit, Cic. de Imp. Pomp. 23, 66: multa dona ex Hieronis gaza, Liv. 25, 25, 13; id. 45, 41, 6; Suet. Aug. 41; and Tac. A. 6, 37; Cic. Off. 2, 22, 76; Suet. Tib. 49; id. Ner. 31; id. Galb. 18; Verg. A. 2, 763; 5, 40; Val. Fl. 6, 562; Mart. 12, 53, 3 al.—In plur.: quoniam nil nostro in corpore gazae Proficiunt, neque nobilitas, etc., Lucr. 2, 37; so Hor. C. 1, 29, 2; 2, 16, 9; Sen. Phoen. 504; id. Herc. Fur. 167; id. Med. 485 al.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
From Ancient Greek γάζα (gáza).
In English words that came into English from gaza
- gazetteergaza