The corpus record — Latin

sermocinatio

sermocinatio · f

a conversation

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What it meant

sermōcĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short

sermōcĭnātĭo, ōnis, f.sermocinor,

I a conversation, disputation, discussion (very rare): sermones hominum assimulatos dicere dialo/gous malunt, quod Latinorum quidam dixerunt sermocinationem, Quint. 9, 2, 31: sermocinatio alicujus aliquā de re, Gell. 19, 8, 2.—In rhet.: sermocinatio est, cum alicui personae sermo attribuitur et is exponitur cum ratione dignitatis, Auct. Her. 4, 52, 65; cf. id. 4, 43, 55; Vulg. Prov. 3, 32.

Where it came from

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