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capacitas

capacitas · f

a capability of holding much

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Where it lives

Adversus Praxean 1 · 0.68/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

căpācĭtas — Lewis & Short

căpācĭtas, ātis, f.capax,

I a capability of holding much, capacity (rare).

I In gen.: utrum capacitatem aliquam in animo putamus esse, quo tamquam in aliquod vas, ea, quae meminimus, infundantur? Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 61: uteri, Plin. 10, 47, 66, § 131; Col. 12, 43, 10: moduli, Front. Aquaed. 26. —

II Esp., in the Lat. of the jurists. a capability of entering upon an inheritance, right of inheritance (cf. capio, I. B. 2. b. b; capax, II. B.), Dig. 31, 55, § 1; Cod. Th. 9, 42, 1 pr.—

B Intellectually, capacity, comprehension, Aug. Conf. 10, 9; Cod. Just. 1, 17, 1, § 1.

In the wild

capacitate Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.39
capacitatem Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.61.p1
capacitatis Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 16
capacitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.7.p11
capacitas Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.61.p1
capacitatem Tertullian, Apologeticum 21.6

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Where it came from

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