coercitio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coercitio, coercitionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
coercion, restraint, repression; (affliction of summary/right to) punishment;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quantum cliens abstulerit, quantum lis uxoria, quantum seruorum coercitio, quantum officiosa per urbem discursatio; adice morbos quos manu..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...conclusio, praemunitio, similitudo, exemplum, digestio, distributio, interpellatio, interpellantis coercitio, contentio, purgatio, laesio? III. Quid vero agit omnino eloquentia..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...pensitato an coerceri tam profusae cupidines possent, num coercitio plus damni in rem publicam ferret, quam indecorum adtrectare..."