contentionum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contentio, contentionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretching, tension; strenuous exercise (physical/mental); comparison (of ADJ);; competition, struggle, effort, exertion; controversy, contention, contrast;; raising voice, speaking passionately/vigorously/formally; intensification;
gen. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...atque enitescit velut pabulo laetiore facundia et adsidua contentionum asperitate fatigata renovatur. XV. Quapropter historiae nonnumquam ubertas..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...invisi dis immortalibus, negarentur posse; nec ante finis contentionum fuit, cum et tribunum acerrimum auctorem plebes nacta esset..."