The corpus record — Latin

thesis

thesis · f

a proposition

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Where it lives

Adelphi 1 · 1.01/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k
Phormio 1 · 0.92/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Institutio Oratoria 5 · 0.29/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

thĕsis — Lewis & Short

thĕsis, is, f., = qe/sis, in rhetoric,

I a proposition, thesis (pure Lat. propositum), Quint. 3, 5, 11; 3, 5, 14; 2, 4, 24; 7, 10, 5; 12, 2, 25; Sen. Contr. prooem.—

II In prosody, the falling of the voice, the thesis (opp. arsis), Mart. Cap. 9, §§ 974 and 985.

In the wild

thesin Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.5.11
thesis Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.pr.12
thesium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.22.p1
thesim Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 7.4.3
these Terence, Eunuchus front.subject_3
thesin Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.5.14

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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