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nutatio

nutatio · f

A nodding

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Where it lives

Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

nūtātĭo — Lewis & Short

nūtātĭo, ōnis, f.id. (post-Aug.).

I A nodding: capitis, Plin. 11, 37, 49, § 135. —

II A swaying.

A Lit.: frequens et in utramque partem nutatio, Quint. 11, 3, 129.—

B Trop., a shaking, tottering: nutatio reipublicae, Plin. Pan. 5, 6.

In the wild

nutatio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p9
nutatione Tacitus, Historiae 3.50
nutatio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 11.3.129

Where it came from

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