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activus

activus · adj

Active

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

actīvus — Lewis & Short

actīvus, a, um, adj.ago.

I Active: philosophia, practical (opp. to contemplativa): philosophia et contemplativa est et activa; spectat simul agitque, Sen. Ep. 95, 10: (opp. to spectativus) thesin a causa sic distinguunt, ut illa sit spectativae partis, haec activae, Quint. 3, 5, 11: (rhetorice) quia maximus ejus usus actu continetur, dicatur activa, id. 2, 18, 5.—

II In gramm.: verba activa, which designate transitive action (opp. neutra or intransitiva), Charis. p. 138; Diom. p. 326 P. al.—Adv.: actīve, in gramm., actively, like a verb active, Prisc. pp. 794, 799 P.

In the wild

activa Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.18.5
activa Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.IX.p2
activa Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 15.95.10
activae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.5.11

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