The corpus record — Latin

abdicatio

abdicatio · f

a renouncing, disowning

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Where it lives

De Spectaculis 3 · 4.71/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 9 · 4.2/10k
Controversiae 17 · 2.58/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 1 · 0.74/10k
Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

abdĭcātĭo — Lewis & Short

abdĭcātĭo, ōnis, f.abdĭco,

I a renouncing, disowning.

1 Jurid. t. t.: hereditatis, Cod. Just. 6, 31, 6: liberorum, disinheriting, ib. 6, 8, 47; Quint. 7, 4, 27; 3, 6, 77; 7, 1, 15; Plin. 7, 45, 46, § 150 al.; cf. Dirksen, Versuch., etc., Leipz. 1823, p. 62 sq.—*

2 Polit. t. t., a renunciation of an office, abdication: dictaturae, Liv. 6, 16 fin.

In the wild

abdicationis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.4.10
abdicationum Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.3.7
Abdicatio Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.8.3
abdicatione Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.1.28
abdicationibus Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 2.1
abdicationem Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.1.30

6 of 40 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.