extemporale
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extemporalis, extemporalis, extemporale:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
unpremeditated, extempore, ad-lib; of a person speaking off the cuff;
abl. sg. (all)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...mandatos in promptu habuerint, ut, quotiens esset occasio, extemporales eorum dictiones his uelut emblematis exornarentur: quo quidem (neque..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...quasi ἀρχέτυπον. Ideo in optima quaque mille figuras extemporales invenimus, in iis etiam quas tantum editas scimus..."