The corpus record — Latin

magnanimitas

magnanimitas · f

greatness of soul, magnanimity

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Where it lives

Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
De Clementia 2 · 2.4/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2 · 0.76/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

magnănĭmĭtas — Lewis & Short

magnănĭmĭtas, ātis, f.magnanimus,

I greatness of soul, magnanimity (class.): omnis honestas manat a partibus quatuor, quarum una est cognitionis, altera communitatis, tertia magnanimitatis, quarta moderationis, Cic. Off. 1, 43, 152: magnanimitas fuit expetito semper honore abstinere, Plin. Pan. 58, 6; Sen. Ep. 74, 13; 115, 3; id. Clem. 1, 5, 3; Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 93; Flor. 1, 18 al.; Amm. 16, 5, 9; Macr. S. 1, 11, 24.

In the wild

magnanimitatem Tertullian, Apologeticum 50.6
magnanimitas Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 19.115.3
magnanimitatem Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.13.18.17
magnanimitas Seneca, De Clementia 1.5.3
magnanimitatem Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.22.6.47
magnanimitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.11.4

6 of 16 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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