The corpus record — Latin

locutio

locutio · f

a speaking

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Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Orator 3 · 1.62/10k
Brutus 2 · 0.8/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

lŏcūtĭo — Lewis & Short

lŏcūtĭo (lŏquūtio), ōnis, f.loquor,

I a speaking.

I Lit.

A In gen., a speaking, speech, discourse: sermo est oratio remissa et finitima quotidianae locutioni, Auct. Her. 3, 13, 23: ex locutione, ex reticentia, Cic. Off. 1, 41, 146: quamquam omnis locutio oratio est, tamen unius oratoris locutio hoc proprio signata nomine est, id. Or. 19, 64.—

B In partic., way of speaking, pronunciation: emendata et Latina, Cic. Brut. 74, 258: recta, Quint. 1, 6, 20.—

II Transf., an utterance, word, mode of expression, phrase (post-Aug.): quidam dicere maluerunt locutiones (quam verba), Quint. 1, 5, 2: copia locutionum talium, Gell. 1, 7 fin.

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