LOGOI

The corpus record — Latin

scansio

scansio · f

a climbing up

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

Where it lives

What it meant

scansĭo — Lewis & Short

scansĭo, ōnis, f.scando,

I a climbing up (very rare). *
I Lit.: quā simplici scansione scandebant in lectum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 168 Müll.—
II Trop.: sonorum, a rising or elevation of tones of the voice, Vitr. 6, 1. —In gram., a metrical reading or scanning of verse, scansion, Beda, p. 2368 P.; Diom. 494 sq. P.

In the wild

Where it came from

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

Downloads

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

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.