argute
Dictionary entries
- Entry →arguo, arguere, argui, argutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
prove, argue, allege; disclose; accuse, complain of, charge, blame, convict;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →argutus, arguta -um, argutior -or -us, argutissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
melodious, clear (sounds), ringing; eloquent; wise, witty, cunning; talkative;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →argute, argutius, argutissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shrewdly, cleverly, artfully;
Examples
- T
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Nequiquam hercle es, nam nihil auri fero. nimis argute obrepsisti in eapse occasiuncula: postquam ego me aurum ferre..." - A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Praetoris edictum scripsit, multa posuit pariter lepide atque argute reperta. Sicuti hoc est, quod in quarto ad edictum..." - A
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...fato trahuntur. Contra ea Chrysippus tenuiter multa et argute disserit; sed omnium fere, quae super ea re scripsit..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...longo perpetuoque aevo potiturum."10 Hoc sane Apollinaris argute. Sed aliud tamen est "longum aevum", aliud "perpetuum", neque..." - G
Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...ingenii elegantia, operum varietate monstrabilis. Scripsit mimiambos tenuiter argute venuste, atque in hoc genere eloquentissime; nullum est enim..."
