The corpus record — Latin

percontatio

percontatio · f

an asking

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Where it lives

Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
De bello Gallico 2 · 0.39/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Institutio Oratoria 3 · 0.17/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

percontātĭo — Lewis & Short

percontātĭo (percunct-), ōnis, f.percontor,

I an asking, inquiring after any thing; a question, inquiry.

I In gen. (class.): tempus percontatione consumere, Cic. Univ. 1: aliquid percontationibus reperire, Caes. B. G. 5, 13: percontatio quid in senatu esset actum, Cic. Brut. 60, 218: collocutio atque percontatio, Plin. 11, 30, 36, § 110.—

II In partic., as a figure of speech, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203.

Where it came from

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