versūtĭa — Lewis & Short
versūtĭa, ae, f.versutus,
I cunning, slyness, craftiness, subtlety, ingenuity (very rare; cf.: dolus, astutia); sing. (late Lat.), App. Mag. p. 307, 41; p. 325, 25.—Plur., Liv. 42, 47, 7.
The corpus record — Latin
versutia
versutia · f
cunning
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Where it lives
- De idolatria 1 · 1.45/10k
- Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
- Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
- De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
- Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
- Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- uersutia Apuleius, Apologia 53
- versutias Tertullian, De idolatria 21
- uersutiam Apuleius, Apologia 81
- versutia Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 30.4.4
- versutiam Minucius Felix, Octavius 16.2
- uersutiam Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.17.p1
6 of 8 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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