digestio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →digestio, digestionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
arrangement; laying/setting out/in order; division (speech); enumeration;; digestion; dissolving of food; distribution of assimilated food in body (OLD);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tenuetur, quod ambulatio, unctio, veneris abstinentia, facilis ciborum digestio, id est frugalitas, praestat: XX. praeterea ut sint fauces..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...illa quae maxime movent, similitudo et exemplum: digestio, interpellatio, contentio, reticentia, commendatio: XXXII. vox quaedam libera atque etiam..."