The corpus record — Latin

lineamentum

lineamentum · n

a line

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Where it lives

De Carnis Resurrectione 5 · 2.21/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
Ad Nationes 2 · 1.34/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

līnĕāmentum — Lewis & Short

līnĕāmentum (līnĭā-), i, n.linea,

I a line or stroke made with a pen, with chalk, etc., a mark, line.

I Lit.: in geometria lineamenta formae, etc., lines, Cic. de Or. 1, 41, 187: lineamentum, longitudinem latitudine carentem, id. Ac. 2, 36, 116. —

B Transf.

1 A feature, lineament: quae conformatio lineamentorum, Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 47: lineamenta hospitae, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 36, § 89: lineamenta oris effingere, id. Div. 1, 13, 23: habitum oris lineamentaque intueri, Liv. 21, 4: corporis, id. 26, 41.—

2 In plur., of the works of artists, designs, drawings, delineations: adumbratorum deorum lineamenta, Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 75: operum lineamenta, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 44, § 98.—

II Trop., a feature, lineament: animi lineamenta sunt pulchriora quam corporis, Cic. Fin. 3, 22, 75: numerus quasi quandam palaestram et extrema lineamenta orationi attulit, id. Or. 56, 186: Catonis lineamentis nihil nisi eorum pigmentorum, quae inventa nondum erant, florem et colorem defuisse, sketches, outlines, id. Brut. 87, 298.

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