The corpus record — Latin

perceptio

perceptio · f

a taking

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Where it lives

Lucullus 7 · 3.89/10k
Academica 1 · 2.05/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De Inventione 2 · 0.6/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3 · 0.43/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2 · 0.4/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

perceptĭo — Lewis & Short

perceptĭo, ōnis, f.percipio,

I a taking, receiving; a gathering in, collecting.

I Lit., Ambros. in Luc. 4, 15: frugum fruetuumque reliquorum, Cic. Off. 2, 3, 12: fructuum, Col. 1, 3, 2.—

II Trop., perception, comprehension (cf.: notio, cognitio): animi perceptiones, notions, ideas, Cic. Ac. 2, 7, 22: cognitio aut perceptio, aut si verbum e verbo volumus comprehensio, quam kata/lhyin illi vocant, id. ib. 2, 6, 17.

Where it came from

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