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notabilis

notabilis · adj

noteworthy, distinguished, remarkable, extraordinary, memorable, notable

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 3 · 3.23/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
De Vita Beata 2 · 2.75/10k
Nero 2 · 2.56/10k
Letters 12 · 1.85/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
Historiae 8 · 1.55/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Ira 3 · 1.35/10k

Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nŏtābĭlis — Lewis & Short

nŏtābĭlis, e, adj.nota,

I noteworthy, distinguished, remarkable, extraordinary, memorable, notable (not freq. till the Aug. per.; in Cic. perh. only once; in Cæs. not at all).

I Prop.: exitus, * Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 5: rara et notabilis res, Plin. Ep. 7, 6, 1: id est notabilius, Quint. 8, 3, 22: illud notabile ex diversis, id. 8, 5, 5: notabilis introitus, Tac. Agr. 40: cunctis, Juv. 6, 374: magna ista et notabilis eloquentia, Tac. Or. 40.—

B Esp., in a bad sense, infamous, notorious: turpitudine notabiles, Dig. 3, 1, 5: si quid in pejus notabile est, Quint. 1, 3, 1: quae imperitis quoque ad reprehensionem notabilia videntur, id. 9, 4, 33: eo notabilior caedes fuit, quia filius patrem interfecit, Tac. H. 3, 25.—

II Transf., dis cernible, perceptible: aspice nobilissimarum civitatum fundamenta vix notabilia, Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 3.—

B Pointed at, marked, indicated: digitis hominum nutibusque notabilis, App. M. 11, p. 784 Oud.—Hence, adv.: nŏtābĭlĭter, remarkably, notably; perceptibly: quaedam frequentius et notabiliter usurpavit, Suet. Aug. 87: expalluit notabiliter, Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 13: gaudium eminuit, id. ib. 5, 17, 5.—Comp.: notabilius turbare, Tac. H. 1, 55: aliquem odisse, Quint. Decl. 17.

In the wild

notabile Seneca, De Ira 3.26.3
notabilis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 49.10
notabilia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.14.p11
notabile Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.3.1
notabile Pliny the Younger, Letters 6.15.3
notabili Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.12.5

6 of 87 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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