The corpus record — Latin

absolutio

absolutio · f

an absolving

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 3 · 1.4/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 2 · 0.96/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6 · 0.75/10k
Controversiae 4 · 0.61/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

absŏlūtĭo — Lewis & Short

absŏlūtĭo, ōnis, f.absolvo.

I In judicial lang., an absolving, acquittal: sententiis decem et sex absolutio confici poterat, Cic. Clu. 27: annus decimus post virginum absolutionem, id. Cat. 3, 4: majestatis (for de majestate), an acquittal from crimen majestatis, id. Fam. 3, 11.—In Suet. in plur.: reis absolutiones venditare, Vesp. 16.—

II Completion, perfection, consummation.

A In gen.: virtus quae rationis absolutio definitur, Cic. Fin. 5, 14: hanc absolutionem perfectionemque in oratore desiderans, this finish and perfection, id. de Or. 1, 28, 130; so id. Inv. 2, 30.—

B Esp., in rhet., completeness, Cic. Inv. 1, 22, 32.

In the wild

absolutio Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.10.13
absolutio Cicero, Brutus 137.p2
absolutioni Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.11
absolutionem Cicero, In L. Catilinam 3.9
absolutioni Tacitus, Annales 3.p13
absolutionem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.1.9

6 of 53 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.