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notitia

a being known, celebrity, note, fame

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Where it lives

Dion 1 · 6.74/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 6 · 6.45/10k
De Paenitentia 2 · 4.91/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 2 · 4.83/10k
Ad Nationes 6 · 4.01/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 2 · 3.9/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
Lucullus 6 · 3.33/10k
De Carne Christi 3 · 3.16/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 2 · 3.14/10k
Apologeticum 6 · 3/10k

Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nōtĭtĭa — Lewis & Short

nōtĭtĭa, ae (

I gen. sing. notitiāï, Lucr. 2, 124.—Collat. form nōtĭtĭes, Lucr. 5, 182; 1047; Vitr. 6 prooem.), f. 1. notus, a being known, celebrity, note, fame.

I Lit. (very rare): hi propter notitiam sunt intromissi, Nep. Dion. 9, 4: tanta notitia te invasit, Sen. Ep. 19, 3: plus notitiae quam fuit ante dedit, Ov. P. 3, 1, 49: virtus Notitiam serae posteritatis habet, id. ib. 4, 8, 48.—

II Transf. (class.)

A Acquaintance with a person: quamquam haec inter nos nuper admodum notitia est, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 1: fama adulescentis paulum haesit ad metas notitia nova mulieris, Cic. Cael. 31, 75; Ov. M. 4, 59.—

2 In partic.: notitiam feminae habere, to know or have carnal knowledge of a woman, Caes. B. G. 6, 21, 5; cf. cognosco.—

B In gen. a knowing, knowledge, an idea, conception, notion of a thing: notitiam praebere, Lucr. 5, 124: nostrae menti corpora posse vorti in notitiam, id. 2, 745: notitiam habere dei, Cic. Leg. 1, 8, 24: valetudo sustentatur notitiā sui corporis, id. Off. 2, 24, 86: notitiae rerum, quas Graeci tum e)nnoi/as, tum prolh/yeis vocant, id. Ac. 2, 10, 30: natura ingenuit sine doctrinā notitias parvas rerum maximarum, id. Fin. 5, 21, 59: habere notitiam alicujus rei, Quint. 6, 4, 8: locorum, Plin. 5, 5, 5, § 48; Liv. 4, 19, 6: hoc venit mihi in notitiam, Plin. 7, 1, 1, § 6: tradere aliquid notitiae hominum, id. 3, 5, 9, § 57; Vell. 2, 7, 4: antiquitatis, Cic. Sen. 4, 12: in notitiam hominum pervenire, to become generally known, Sen. Contr. 6, 2, 5: quo notitia supplicii ad posteros perveniret, Val. Max. 6, 3, 1: in notitiam populi pervenire, Liv. 22, 26, 2: in notitiam alicujus perferre aliquid, Plin. Ep. 10, 18, 2.

In the wild

notitiam Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.5.35
notitia Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.31.2
notitia Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.34.62.18
notitia Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Alexandrino 27
notitiam Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.86b.1
notitiae Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 11.2

6 of 224 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. notitia (scan p. 469; entry #7569).

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