contextu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contexo, contexere, contexui, contextus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
weave/entwine/braid/twist together; compose/connect/link/combine; make/join/form
abl. sg. - Entry →contextus, contextus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
weaving (action), joining/putting together; connection, coherence; continuity;; ordered scheme, plan/course; structure/fabric; series, complex/whole of parts;; context;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...uiribus saeuit. [30,3] Sic et Hispanias a contextu Africae mare eripuit, sic per hanc inundationem, quam poetarum..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...specu uentos recessuque interiore terrarum. Non tota solido contextu terra in imum usque fundatur, sed multis partibus caua..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...agat ; et infra se sidera habeat, an in contextu sui fixa ; quemadmodum sol anni uices seruet; an retro..." - L
de Providentia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...multa bonis uiris mala acciderent. Hoc commodius in contextu operis redderetur, cum praeesse uniuersis prouidentiam probaremus et interesse..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...nostros alligavit, altera manus. <. . .> Ascyltos, iam deficiente fabularum contextu: "Quid? Ego, inquit, non sum dignus qui bibam?" Ancilla..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dixi, neque finem habent certum nec ullam in contextu varietatem, sed qua coeperunt sublatione latione ac positione..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...intellegetur. XIV. Plus tamen est obscuritatis in contextu et continuatione sermonis, et plures modi. Quare..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...pueris recto illo quo primum scribi solent contextu videntur, retro agant rursus et varia permutatione turbent, donec litteras..."