The corpus record — Latin

geminatio

geminatio · f

a doubling

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Where it lives

Institutio Oratoria 10 · 0.58/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

gĕmĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short

gĕmĭnātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a doubling: geminatio verborum habet interdum vim, leporem alias, * Cic. de Or. 3, 54, 206; so, verborum, Quint. 9, 3, 67: vocalium, id. 1, 4, 10: accusativi, id. 7, 9, 10; id. 9, 3, 29: in eadem vitii geminatione, id. 1, 5, 12; Gell. 13, 24, 4.

In the wild

geminatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.4.10
geminatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.67
geminatio Cicero, De Oratore 3.206
geminatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.47
geminatione Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 7.9.10
geminationis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 9.3.29

6 of 12 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.