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
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..."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..."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..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...nostros alligavit, altera manus. <. . .> Ascyltos, iam deficiente fabularum contextu: "Quid? Ego, inquit, non sum dignus qui bibam?" Ancilla..."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..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...intellegetur. XIV. Plus tamen est obscuritatis in contextu et continuatione sermonis, et plures modi. Quare..."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..."