emptionem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →emptio, emptionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
purchase/acquisition, thing bought; deed of purchase; act of buying/purchasing;
acc. sg.
Examples
- M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...inpulimus. inde fugientia vela longo visu prosecuti facilem emptionem, secundos ventos, placidum mare, non secus ipsi navigaremus, precati..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...captivum detineret. inritamque praedam militibus effecerat consensus Italiae, emptionem talium mancipiorum aspernantis: occidi coepere; quod ubi enotuit..."