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adoptatio

adoptatio · f

an adopting

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Where it lives

Helius 1 · 6.97/10k
De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k

What it meant

ădoptātĭo — Lewis & Short

ădoptātĭo, ōnis, f.id.; access. form of adoptio, by which it was supplanted after the class. per.,

I an adopting, receiving as a child, ui(oqesi/a: quid propagatio nominis, quid adoptationes filiorum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 14, 31: adoptatio Theophani agitata est, id. Balb. 25, 57: ipsum illum adoptatione in regnum pervenisse, Sall. J. 11, 6: quod per praetorem fit, adoptatio dicitur; quod per populum, arrogatio, Gell. 5, 19; Tert. adv. Gent. 2, 1.

In the wild

adoptationes Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.30.p2
adoptatio Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 5.19.a
adoptatione Sallust, Jugurtha 11.p2
adoptationem Historia Augusta, Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 5
adoptatio Cicero, Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 57.p1
adoptationem Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 23

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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