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lenitudo

lenitudo · f

softness, mildness, gentleness, calmness

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Where it lives

Res Gestae 8 · 0.63/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

lēnĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

lēnĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.id.,

I softness, mildness, gentleness, calmness (very rare): orationis, Pac. ap. Cic. Tusc. 5, 16, 46 (Trag. Fragm. v. 247 Rib.): mira lenitudine ac suavitate abundat, Turp. ap. Non. 132, 3 (Com. Fragm. v. 189 Rib.): nimia in aliquem lenitudo, * Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 61, § 136.

In the wild

lenitudinem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.2.6
lenitudinem Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.8.6
lenitudine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.1.8
lenitudine Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.5.13
lenitudinis Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 29.2.22
lenitudine Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.136

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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