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differentia

differentia · f

a difference, diversity

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Where it lives

Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 10 · 34.42/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 7 · 12/10k
Topica 7 · 10.22/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 2 · 5.12/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
De Anima 10 · 4.21/10k
Naturalis Historia 160 · 4.04/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 8 · 3.53/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 2 · 3.38/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 2 · 3.14/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 2 · 2.15/10k
Institutio Oratoria 35 · 2.04/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

diffĕrentĭa — Lewis & Short

diffĕrentĭa, ae, f.differo,

I a difference, diversity (cf.: discrepantia, distantia, discrimen, diversitas, variatio—good prose, esp. freq. in Quint.).

(a) With gen.: honesti et decori, Cic. Off. 1, 27, 94: naturarum, id. ib. 1, 31, 112: morum, Petr. 84, 1: personarum, locorum temporumque, Quint. 12, 10, 70: nostri Graecique sermonis, id. 9, 4, 146 et saep.—In plur.: Graeci sermonis, Quint. 11, 2, 50.—

(b) With in: quanta differentia est in principiis naturalibus, Cic. Fin. 5, 7, 19; Quint. 3, 7, 25; 3, 8, 37; 7, 2, 48 et saep.—

(g) Absol.: ut facies infinitam habet differentiam, Quint. 11, 3, 18; so id. 9, 4, 45.—

II Esp. a species: genus est notio ad pluris differentias pertinens, Cic. Top. 7, 31; cf.: definitionem omnem ex genere et differentia consistere, Gell. 4, 1, 10.

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