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observantia

observantia · f

a remarking, noting, regard, observance

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Where it lives

Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 2 · 1.72/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
Pro L. Murena 1 · 0.95/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 4 · 0.34/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

observantĭa — Lewis & Short

observantĭa, ae, f.observo,

I a remarking, noting, regard, observance.

I In gen.: temporum observantia, Vell. 2, 1063. —

II In partic.

A Observance, attention, respect, regard, reverence shown to another: observantia est, per quam aetate, aut sapientiā, aut honore, aut aliquā dignitate antecedentes veremur et colimus, Cic. Inv. 2, 22, 65: officia observantiamque dilexit, id. Balb. 28, 53: tenuiorum, id. Mur. 34, 71: amicos observantiā, rem parsimoniā retinere, id. Quint. 18, 59: observantia, quā me colit, id. Fam. 12, 27, 1: in regem, Liv. 1, 35: eadem pro libertis adversus patronos, Quint. 11, 1, 66.—

B An obedient observance; a keeping, following, performing of laws, customs, etc.: prisci moris observantia, Val. Max. 2, 6, 7: juris, Dig. 1, 2, 2.—

2 An observance of religious duties, divine worship, religion: fides Catholicae observantiae, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 12, § 54: religio et observantia, Vulg. 2 Macc. 6, 11.

In the wild

observantiam Cicero, De Inventione 2.66
observantiae Cicero, Pro Cn. Plancio 45
observantiae Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.4.1
observantiam Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.8.3
observantiam Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.21a.1
observantiamque Cicero, Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 63

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