pĕriphrăsis — Lewis & Short
pĕriphrăsis, is, f., = peri/frasis,
I a circumlocution, periphrase (post-Aug.), Suet. Gram. 4; Quint. 8, 3, 53; Gell. 3, 1, 6 (pure Lat.: circuitus eloquendi, ambitus verborum, circumlocutio).
The corpus record — Latin
periphrasis
periphrasis · f
a circumlocution
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Where it lives
- Institutio Oratoria 2 · 0.12/10k
- Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- periphrasis Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.1.6
- periphrasis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.3.53
- periphrasis Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.61
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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