The corpus record — Latin

recusatio

recusatio · f

a declining

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 1 · 2.46/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 2 · 1.18/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k
De Inventione 3 · 0.91/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 1 · 0.48/10k
De Oratore 2 · 0.33/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

rĕcūsātĭo — Lewis & Short

rĕcūsātĭo, ōnis, f.id..

I In gen., a declining, refusal.

A Lit. (good prose): disputationis, Cic. de Or. 2, 7, 26: cotidiana mea recusatio, Hirt. B. G. prooem. § 1: sine ullā recusatione, Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 13: sine recusatione, id. Cat. 3, 2, 5; * Caes. B. C. 3, 90. —

B Transf.: stomachi, loathing, nausea, Petr. 141, 6.—

II In partic., in jurid. lang.,

A An objection, protest: neque haec tua recusatio confessio sit captae pecuniae, Cic. Clu. 53, 148: poena violatae religionis justam recusationem non habet, id. Leg. 2, 16, 41. —

B A plea in defence, counter-plea (opp. petitio): judiciale (genus orationum) habet in se accusationem et defensionem, aut petitionem et recusationem, Cic. Inv. 1, 5, 7; 2, 4, 11; Quint. 4, 4, 6; 5, 6, 5.

In the wild

recusatio Cicero, Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 28
recusatione Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.98.2
recusationem Tertullian, De ieiunio adversus psychicos 3
recusatio Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 148
recusatio Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.31
recusatione Cicero, In L. Catilinam 3.5

6 of 24 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.