The corpus record — Latin

definio

definio · v. a

To bound, to set bounds to; to limit, terminate, define

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Distribution

Topica 15 · 21.91/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 11 · 11.23/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 6 · 10.29/10k
Orator 11 · 5.95/10k
Lucullus 10 · 5.56/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 2 · 5.12/10k
De Baptismo 2 · 4.68/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 5 · 4.5/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 25 · 4.41/10k
De Lege Agraria 6 · 4.35/10k
De Republica 9 · 4.13/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 10 · 4.07/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

dēfīnĭo — Lewis & Short

To bound, to set bounds to; to limit, terminate, define

Attestations

definiunt Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.11.25
definivit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.12.4
definiens Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.5.2
definiam Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.16.13
definivit Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.14.5
definitur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.74

6 of 340 attestations shown.

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