The corpus record — Latin

mollitudo

mollitudo · f

suppleness, flexibility, softness

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 1 · 0.18/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mollĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

mollĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.id.,

I suppleness, flexibility, softness (class.).

I Lit.: mollitudo vocis, flexibility of the voice, Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20: manuum, Pac. ap. Gell. 2, 26, 13: assimilis spongiis mollitudo, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136: viarum, Vitr. 10, 6 init.; 10, 2, 11.—

II Trop., softness, susceptibility, weakness: humanitatis, Cic. de Or. 3, 40, 161: corrumpi mollitudine vitiorum, Arn. 2, 64.

Where it came from

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

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.