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accentus

accentus · m

a blast

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Where it lives

Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Noctes Atticae 7 · 0.63/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

accentus — Lewis & Short

accentus, ūs, m.accino, the attuning a thing; hence

I Lit.

A In gen., a blast, signal (late Lat.): aeneatorum accentu, Amm. 16, 12, 36: id. 24, 4, 22; acutissimi tibiarum, Solin. 5 fin.—

B In gramm., the accentuation of a word, accent, tone (post-Aug.): accentus, quos Graeci proswdi/as vocant (so that it is a lit. transl. of the Gr. word, pro/s = ad, and w)|dh/ = cantus), Quint. 1, 5, 22; 12, 10, 33; Diom. p. 425 Putsch.—

II Fig., intensity, violence: hiemis, Sid. Ep. 4, 6: doloris, Marc. Emp. 36.

In the wild

accentu Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.4.22
accentum Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.5.28
accentuum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.3.5
accentu Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.7.7
accentu Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.12.36
accentus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.33

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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