LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

dialogus

dialogus · m

a

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dĭălŏgus — Lewis & Short

dĭălŏgus, i, m., = dia/logos,

I a (philosophical) conversation, a dialogue (for syn. cf.: colloquium, contio, contentio, oratio), Cic. Or. 44 fin.; id. Brut. 60 fin.; Quint. 5, 14, 27; 6, 3, 44 al. (written as Greek, Cic. Att. 5, 5; 15, 13; Quint. 9, 2, 31; in the last passage transl. by sermocinatio).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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