The corpus record — Latin

enuntio

enuntio · v. a

to say out

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Where it lives

De Fato 7 · 14.12/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 1 · 1.72/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 2 · 1.51/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 2 · 1.36/10k
De bello Gallico 6 · 1.17/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 37 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ē-nuntĭo — Lewis & Short

ē-nuntĭo (enuncio), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,

I to say out (esp. something that should be kept secret), to divulge, disclose, to report, tell.

I Prop. (good prose): ut, quod meae concreditumst taciturnitati clam, ne enuntiarem, quoiquam, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 106: sociorum consilia adversariis, Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 117; cf. Caes. B. G. 1, 17, 5: rem Helvetiis per indicium, id. ib. 1, 4, 1; cf.: dolum Ciceroni per Fulviam, Sall. C. 28, 2: mysteria, Cic. Mur. 11, 25; id. de Or. 1, 47, 206; cf. Liv. 10, 38; 23, 35; Caes, B. G. 1, 31, 2; 5, 58, 1 et saep.— With acc. and inf., Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 66.— Absol., Caes. B. G. 1, 30 fin.—

II Transf., in gen., to speak out, say, express, declare (for the most part only in Cic. and Quint. in the rhetor., dialect., and gram. signif.): cum inflexo commentatoque verbo res eadem enuntiatur ornatius, Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 168: sententias breviter, id. Fin. 2, 7, 20: obscena nudis nominibus, Quint. 8, 3, 38: voluntatem aliquam, id. 3, 3, 1; cf. id. 9, 1, 16; 8, 3, 62: fundamentum dialecticae est, quicquid enuntietur (id autem appellant a)ci/wma, quod est quasi effatum) aut verum esse, aut falsum, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 29 fin.—Cf. in the part. subst.: ēnuntiā-tum, i, n., a proposition, = enuntiatio, Cic. Fat. 9, 19, and 12, 28.—

B To pronounce, utter: (litterae) quae scribuntur aliter quam enuntiantur, Quint. 1, 7, 28; cf. id. 1, 5, 18; 1, 11, 4; 2, 11, 4 al.: masculino genere cor, ut multa alia, enuntiavit Ennius, Caesell. ap. Gell. 7, 2, 4.

In the wild

enuntiaret Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias 4
enuntiat Ausonius, Epistularum 1.p2
enuntiavit Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.5.p8
enuntientur Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.11.4
enuntiasset Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.10.5
enuntiat Tertullian, De Anima 53

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