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translatio

translatio · f

a carrying

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Where it lives

Orator 7 · 3.79/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 4 · 3.6/10k
Institutio Oratoria 58 · 3.37/10k
Topica 2 · 2.92/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Inventione 8 · 2.42/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Anima 4 · 1.68/10k
De Oratore 9 · 1.49/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

translātĭo — Lewis & Short

translātĭo or trālātĭo, ōnis, f.transfero,

I a carrying or removing from one place to another, a transporting, transferring.

I Lit.

A In gen.: pecuniarum translatio a justis dominis ad alienos, Cic. Off. 1, 14, 43: domicilii, removal, Suet. Ner. 9. —

B In partic., of plants, a transplanting, ingrafting, Plin. 17, 11, 14, § 75; Col. 3, 10, 20; Varr. R. R. 1, 41, 3.—

C A pouring out into another vessel, Col. 12, 52, 11. —

II Trop.

A In gen.: criminis, a transferring, shifling off, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 42, § 91; cf. id. Inv. 1, 8, 10; 2, 19, 57; Quint. 3, 6, 23; 3, 6, 38 sq. —

B In partic.

1 Of speech or writing, a version, translation into another language, Quint. 1, 4, 18; Hier. Ep. 99, 1; Aug. Retract. 1, 7, 2; Greg. Mag. in Job, 12, 6.—

b A transfer to a figurative signification, a trope, metaphor: translationes audaciores, Cic. de Or. 3, 38, 156 sq.: durior ... verecunda, id. ib. 3, 41, 165; id. Or. 25, 85; Auct. Her. 4, 34, 45; Quint. 8, 6, 4 sq. al.—

2 In gram., a transposition.

a Of letters, metathesis, Don. p. 1773 P.; Diom. p. 437 ib.—

b Of words: id verborum translatione emendatur, Quint. 7, 9, 9.

Where it came from

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