The corpus record — Latin

fabricatio

fabricatio · f

a making

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Where it lives

De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

fā^brĭcātio, ōnis, f.id.,

I a making, framing, structure, manner of construction (rare but class.).

I Lit.: si erit tota hominis fabricatio perspecta, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 133: auri, working, Vulg. Sirach, 32, 8.—In plur.: aedificiorum, Vitr. 2, 1: artificis, id. 9, 2: non sentiunt has injurias et contumelias fabricationis suae dei vestri, Tert. Apol. 12.—

II Trop., of speech, structure, skilful construction, Cic. de Or. 3, 42, 167.

In the wild

fabricationem Tertullian, De idolatria 8
fabricatio Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.133.p2
fabricationibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.1.6.p2
fabricationibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.pr.6
fabricationem Tertullian, De Pudicitia 5
fabricationis Tertullian, Apologeticum 12.6

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.