The corpus record — Latin

recitatio

recitatio · f

a reading aloud

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Where it lives

Dialogus de Oratoribus 4 · 4.3/10k
Divus Claudius 1 · 1.57/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Letters 6 · 0.93/10k
De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

rĕcĭtātĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕcĭtātĭo, ōnis, f.recito.

I A publicist's t. t., a reading aloud of documents in judicial proceedings: ut eum recitationis suae poeniteret, Cic. Clu. 51, 141; Auct. Her. 2, 10, 14 fin.; Cic. Dom. 9, 22; Suet. Calig. 16.—

II A reading aloud of literary works (post-Aug.), Plin. Ep. 3, 15, 3; 3, 18, 4; Tac. Or. 9; 10; Suet. Claud. 41.— Plur., Plin. Ep. 1, 13 fin.; Tac. Or. 10.

In the wild

recitatione Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratoribus 11.2
recitationem Suetonius, Nero 10.2
recitatione Pliny the Younger, Letters 5.17.4
recitationis Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 141
recitationibus Pliny the Younger, Letters 3.7.5
recitatio Apuleius, Florida 16.p3

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.