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figuratio

figuratio · f

A forming

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Where it lives

De Architectura 6 · 1.04/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 1 · 0.9/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

fĭgūrātĭo — Lewis & Short

fĭgūrātĭo, ōnis, f.figuro (post-Aug.).

I A forming, fashioning; shape, form, figure: nervi hic teretes, illic lati, ut in uno quoque poscit figuratio, Plin. 11, 37, 88, § 217: zona duodecim signis conformata exprimit depictam a natura figurationem, Vitr. 9, 4: Apollinis, App. Dogm. Plat. 1.—

II Trop.

A Imagination, fancy: si spei figuratione tardius cadit, Quint. Decl. 12, 27; vanae, id. ib. 6, 4.—

B Form of a word: (diurnare) ex ea figuratione est, qua dicimus perennare, Gell. 17, 2, 16.—

C Figurative mode of speaking: quisquam illorum his figurationibus uteretur, quae Graeci schemata vocant? Fronto, Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2; Lact. 1, 11, 24; 30.

In the wild

figurationem Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.1.4
figurationis Vitruvius, De Architectura 3.3.6
figurationis Vitruvius, De Architectura 6.1.8
figurationem Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.1.3
figuratione Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 17.2.16
figuratio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p48

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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