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definitio

definitio · f

A bounding, a boundary

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Where it lives

Topica 19 · 27.75/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 14 · 24.01/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 12 · 12.26/10k
Lucullus 12 · 6.67/10k
De Inventione 19 · 5.74/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 3 · 5.38/10k
De Monogamia 3 · 4.3/10k
De Anima 8 · 3.36/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 18 · 3.18/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 3 · 2.7/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Scorpiace 2 · 2.51/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēfīnītĭo — Lewis & Short

dēfīnītĭo, ōnis, f.definio. *

I A bounding, a boundary: AREA INTRA HANC DEFINITIONEM CIPPORVM CLAVSA VERVBVS, Inscr. Orell. 736.—

II A limiting, prescribing, defining; a definition, explanation (freq. only in Cicero; cf. definio): ut quodcumque accidisset praedictum videretur hominum et temporum definitione sublata, Cic. Div. 2, 54, 110: judiciorum aequorum, id. Clu. 2: definitio est earum rerum, quae sunt ejus rei propriae, quam definire volumus, brevis et circumscripta quaedam explicatio, id. de Or. 1, 42, 189; cf. id. Or. 33, 116; id. Fin. 2, 2, 5; id. Off. 1, 2 fin. et saep.; Quint. 1, 6, 29: definitio pars sit translationis, id. 3, 6, 42 et saep.—

III Transf., that which is decreed, decided: perpetrata quippe est definitio, Vulg. Dan. 11, 36.

In the wild

definitio Cicero, Topica 28
definitiones Cicero, Topica 32.p1
definitio Tertullian, De Anima 6
definitionis Tertullian, De Anima 6
definitione Cicero, Lucullus 132
definitio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.6.42

6 of 188 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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