descriptionum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →descriptio, descriptionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
description/descriptive story; drawing of diagram/plan; indictment; transcript;
gen. pl.
Examples
- P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...argumentorum aut colore sententiarum aut nitore et cultu descriptionum invitatus et corruptus est, aversatur [dicentem]. Vulgus quoque adsistentium..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...oratione quoque non historica modo sed prope poetica descriptionum necessitas incidit, et pressus sermo purusque ex epistulis petitur..."