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dialecticus

dialecticus · adj

belonging to disputation, dialectical

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Where it lives

De Fato 2 · 4.04/10k
Lucullus 4 · 2.22/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 7 · 1.4/10k
De Divinatione 3 · 1.09/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Noctes Atticae 8 · 0.72/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dĭălectĭcus — Lewis & Short

dĭălectĭcus, a, um, adj., = dialektiko/s,

I belonging to disputation, dialectical.

I Adj.: captiones, Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17: disputationes, Quint. 5, 14, 27: pars, id. 12, 2, 13 et saep.: sapientiae professor, Plin. 7, 53, 54, § 180.—Adv., dialecticē, dialectically: disputare, Cic. Fin. 2, 6, 17: dicta multa, id. Ac. 1, 2, 8: probare, Quint. 1, 10, 37.—

II Subst.

A dĭălectĭcus, i, m., a dialectician, logician, Cic. Or. 32, 113; id. Fin. 2, 6, 15; Quint. 2, 4, 41; 7, 3, 41 al.—

B dĭă-lectĭca, ae, f. (sc. ars), dialectics, logic, Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 91; id. Fin. 2, 6, 15; Quint. 1, 10, 37; 3, 4, 10 al.—Also in the Gr. form dĭălectĭce, ēs, f., Quint. 2, 20, 7; 2, 17, 14; 2, 21, 13 al.—

C dĭălectĭca, ōrum, n., logical questions, dialectics, Cic. Fin. 3, 12, 41; id. Off. 1, 6, 19; id. Brut. 31, 119 al.

In the wild

dialecticus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.13.8
dialectici Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.55
dialectici Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.8.a
dialectici Cicero, Topica 54
dialectice Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 5.10
dialectici Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 4.9

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