The corpus record — Latin

datio

datio · f

the act of giving, allotting, distributing; giving up, surrender

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Where it lives

De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

dătĭo — Lewis & Short

dătĭo, ōnis, f.do,

I the act of giving, allotting, distributing; giving up, surrender (good prose, but rare).—

I Prop.: in datione, Varr. R. R. 3, 9 fin.: legum ( = latio), * Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 60: signi dationem Palamedes invenit, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202: legati, opp. ademptio legati, Dig. 34, 4, 14: partis, ib. 45, 1, 2.—

II Transf.

A The right to give or convey away property: right of alienation, * Liv. 39, 19.—

B A gift (eccl. Lat.): datio Dei permanet pistis, Vulg. Sirach. 11, 17.

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