The corpus record — Latin

abolitio

abolitio · f

an abrogating

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Where it lives

De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
Gordiani Tres 1 · 1.8/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 2 · 1.78/10k
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 1 · 1.2/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ăbŏlĭtĭo — Lewis & Short

ăbŏlĭtĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I an abrogating, annulling, abolishing, abolition (postAug.).

I In gen.: tributorum, Tac. A. 13, 50; cf.: quadragesimae quinquagesimaeque, id. ib. 13, 51: legis, Suet. Aug. 34: sententiae, Tac. A. 6, 2 fin.—

II In partic.

A An amnesty, Suet. Tib. 4; Flor. 4, 7, 3: sub pacto abolitionis, Quint. 9, 2, 97.—

B In the Dig., the withdrawal of an accusation or suit, suspension: abolitio publica, ex lege, privata, Cod. Th. 9, 37, 3 sq.; Dig. 48, 16 al.; cf. Rein, Criminalrecht. p. 273 sq.

In the wild

abolitione Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 5.8
abolitionem Tertullian, De Pudicitia 20
abolitionem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.2
abolitionem Tertullian, De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum 2
abolitione Tertullian, De Paenitentia 2
abolitionem Suetonius, Tiberius 4.1

6 of 17 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.