The corpus record — Latin

elocutio

elocutio · f

a speaking out

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 45 · 2.62/10k
De Inventione 4 · 1.21/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

ēlŏcūtĭo — Lewis & Short

ēlŏcūtĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I Prop., a speaking out, utterance, expression: pluralis, Dig. 22, 5, 12.—

II Transf., in rhet. lang., oratorical delivery, elocution; the Gr. fra/sis (cf.: locutio, dictio, stilus, etc.), Cic. Inv. 1, 7, 9; Quint. prooem. § 22; 8 prooem. § 13; 8, 1, 1 et saep.

In the wild

elocutione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.57
elocutionem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.3.7
elocutione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.4.15
elocutionis Tertullian, Adversus Judaeos Liber 1
elocutione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.120
elocutio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.pr.20

6 of 52 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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