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imitabilis

imitabilis · adj

that may be imitated

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Where it lives

De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ĭmĭtābĭlis — Lewis & Short

ĭmĭtābĭlis, e, adj.imitor,

I that may be imitated, imitable (rare but class.): orationis subtilitas imitabilis illa quidem videtur esse existimanti, Cic. Or. 23, 76; cf. Quint. 10, 1, 61; 10, 2, 12; 19: tu mihi maxime imitabilis, maxime imitandus videbaris, Plin. Ep. 7, 20, 4: non imitabile fulmen, Verg. A. 6, 590: quiddam, Ov. P. 4, 10, 77: neque est gemma alia imitabilior mendacio vitri, Plin. 37, 8, 33, § 112.—

II Imitative, inclined to imitate: homines imitabili natura, Vitr. 2, 1, 3.

In the wild

imitabilem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.61
imitabili Vitruvius, De Architectura 2.1.3
imitabilis Cicero, Orator 76
imitabile Vergil, Aeneid 6.590
imitabile Tacitus, Historiae 5.6
imitabilis Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.20.4

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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