The corpus record — Latin

ăcȳrŏlŏgĭa

ăcȳrŏlŏgĭa · f

an impropriety of speech

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What it meant

ăcȳrŏlŏgĭa — Lewis & Short

ăcȳrŏlŏgĭa, ae, f., = a)kurologi/a, in rhetoric,

I an impropriety of speech; e. g.: sperare for timere, Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 419 (in pure Lat. improprium or impropria dictio is used instead of it: (quod proprietati est contrarium) id apud nos improprium, a)/kuron apud Graecos vocatur; quale est tantum sperare dolorem; Quint. 8, 2, 3; cf. Don. ap. Lind. Corp. Gr. 1, 28; Charis. p. 242; Diom. 2, p. 444).

Where it came from

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