The corpus record — Latin

formatio

formatio · f

a shaping

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 3 · 4.71/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
De Architectura 5 · 0.87/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

formātĭo — Lewis & Short

formātĭo, ōnis, f.formo,

I a shaping, forming; a form, design, plan (post-Aug.).

I Lit.: formationem puto probandam, locum improbandum, Vitr. 2 praef.: oblonga fori, id. 5, 1: formationes columnarum, id. 4, 1.—

II Trop.: morum, Sen. Ep. 117, 20.

In the wild

formationis Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 11
formatione Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 2.10
formationem Tertullian, Adversus Hermogenem 42
formationibus Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.6.6.p2
formationis Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 11
formatio Vitruvius, De Architectura 5.1.2.p2

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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