recordatio — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Ad Martyras 1 · 6.72/10k
De Brevitate Vitae 2 · 3.24/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 2 · 2.14/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 2 · 1.72/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
De Anima 3 · 1.26/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Pro M. Caelio 1 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 49 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕcordātĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕcordātĭo, ōnis, f.id.,

I a recalling to mind, recollection, remembrance, recordation (class.; esp. freq. in Cic. in sing. and plur.).

(a) With gen.: quorum memoria et recordatio jucunda sane fuit, Cic. Brut. 2, 9; so, coupled with memoria, id. Lael. 27, 104; id. de Or. 1, 53, 228; id. Prov. Cons. 18, 43; cf.: quam (memoriam) quidem Plato recordationem esse vult vitae superioris, id. Tusc. 1, 24, 57 (v. recordor init.): veteris memoriae recordatio, the recollection of an old circumstance, id. de Or. 1, 2, 4; so, praeteritae memoriae, id. Q. Fr. 2, 2, 1; cf. Quint. 11, 2, 43: habet praeteriti doloris secura recordatio delectationem, Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 14; cf. id. Brut. 76, 266: multorum benefactorum recordatio jucundissima est, id. Sen. 3, 9: recordatio impudicitiae et stuprorum suorum, id. Phil. 3, 6, 15; cf.: scelerum suorum, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 50, § 110 Zumpt and Halm N. cr.: nostrae amicitiae, id. Lael. 4, 15: suavis, id. Att. 6, 1, 22. — With subj.-clause: subiit recordatio egisse me juvenem aeque in quadruplici, Plin. Ep. 4, 24, 1.—In the plur.: das mihi jucundas recordationes conscientiae nostrae rerumque earum, quas gessimus, Cic. Fam. 5, 13, 4; Gell. 17, 2, 1.—

(b) Absol.: stulti malorum memoriā torquentur, sapientes bona praeterita gratā recordatione renovata delectant, etc., Cic. Fin. 1, 17, 57; cf.: acerba recordatio, id. de Or. 3, 1, 1: subit recordatio: quot dies quam frigidis rebus absumpsi? Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3.—Plur.: recordationes fugio, quae quasi morte quādam dolorem efficiunt, Cic. Att. 12, 18, 1; Tac. A. 4, 38.

In the wild

recordatio Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.13.12
recordatione Cicero, De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 43
recordatio Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.5.pr
recordatio Tertullian, De Anima 24
recordatio Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 p51
recordationem Tertullian, De Anima 24

6 of 101 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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