lituus

Used in various forms as a military and sometimes civilian signal instrument - as the straight Greek salpinx, the similar Roman tuba, and the Roman lituus, straight with an upturned bell - it came into prominence as a musical instrument in the Middle Ages.

The Latin name for a straight wind-instrument of deep, clangorous sound, which was used at sacrifices, games, and funerals, and in war among the infantry to give the signal for attack and retreat, and was blown by the tubicen (see cut). (Cp. LITUUS, 2.)

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By the 2nd century, the Auxilia contained the same number of infantry as the legions and, in addition, provided almost all of the Roman army's cavalry (especially light cavalry and archers) and more specialised troops. The auxilia thus represented three-fifths of Rome's regular land forces at that time.

lituus m (genitive lituī); second declension. a military trumpet. a curved staff.

[ lit-yoo-uhs ] show ipa. noun,plural lit·u·i [lit-yoo-ahy]. Geometry. a polar curve generated by the locus of a point moving so that the square of its radius vector varies inversely as the angle the radius vector makes with the polar axis.

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However, Augustus organised the Auxilia into regiments the size of cohorts (a tenth the size of legions), due to the much greater flexibility of the smaller unit size. Further, the regiments were of three types: ala (cavalry), cohors (peditata) (infantry) and cohors equitata (mixed cavalry/infantry).

The Roman legion was a highly disciplined, well-trained, and heavily armed body of infantry, which, in the first century AD, comprised between five and six thousand men (the exact number is not stated in the classical literature), all of whom were Roman citizens.

Many words for common objects therefore entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people via Latin even before the tribes reached Britain : anchor, butter, camp, cheese, chest, cook, copper, devil, dish, fork, gem, inch, kitchen, mile, mill, mint (coin), noon, pillow, pound (unit of weight), punt (boat), sack, wall, ...

(lɪtəni ) Word forms: litanies plural. 1. countable noun. If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere.

Something that's awesome or popular, can also refer to being stoned or drunk. For example, "The new Drake album is lit!" Or alternatively, "He got so lit at the party, he passed out on the way home."