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dimensio

dimensio · f

a measuring

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Where it lives

Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 1 · 7.28/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Institutio Oratoria 5 · 0.29/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

dīmensĭo — Lewis & Short

dīmensĭo, ōnis, f.dimetior,

I a measuring.

I Prop.: quadrati, Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57.—

II Transf., the axis of the earth, Hygin. Astr. 1, 3.—

2 Extent, dimensions, in gen., Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6, 36; 2, 2, 3 al.—So plur. Amm. 23, 6, 11.—

III Trop.: vocum, Quint. 9, 4, 45: versuum, id. 48; cf. id. 52 and 85.

In the wild

dimensio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.48
dimensio Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5.2.7
dimensio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.52
dimensiones Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.3.4
dimensione Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.6.11
dimensio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.45

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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