The corpus record — Latin

tempestivitas

tempestivitas · f

a right

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Where it lives

Adversus Judaeos Liber 3 · 2.67/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4 · 0.51/10k
Adversus Marcionem 3 · 0.36/10k
Naturalis Historia 5 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

tempestīvĭtas — Lewis & Short

tempestīvĭtas, ātis, f.tempestivus,

I a right or proper time, timeliness, seasonableness (rare).

I Lit.: sua cuique parti aetatis tempestivitas est data, its appropriate quality or character, * Cic. Sen. 10, 33; Plin. 10, 34, 52, § 105; 11, 14, 14, § 36; 18, 30, 73, § 303.—*

II Transf., a right or proper state or condition: tempestivitates stomachi totiusque corporis, Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 120.

In the wild

tempestivitas Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.14
tempestivitas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.16.1
tempestivitate Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.7
tempestivitas Cicero, De Senectute 33
tempestivitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.30.p3
tempestivitas Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3.4.2

6 of 16 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.