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linearis

linearis · adj

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Where it lives

De Architectura 3 · 0.52/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

līnĕāris — Lewis & Short

līnĕāris, e (or līnĭāris), adj.id.,

I of or belonging to lines, consisting of lines, linear: pictura, the art of drawing with lines, without colors, Plin. 35, 3, 5, § 16: ratio, the science of lines, geometry, Quint. 1, 10, 36: probatio, a proving by means of lines, a mathematical demonstration, id. 1, 10, 49.—Adv.: līnĕārĭter, by lines, Boëth. Inst. Music. 3, 9 init.

In the wild

linearis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.36
linearum Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.pr.4
linearum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.20.3
linearum Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 52.9
linearum Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.1.4
linearibus Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.10.49

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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