litteratura
Dictionary entries
- Entry →litteratura, litteraturae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Literature
alphabet, system of letters; writing, use of letters; grammar/instruction in;; writing, literature; scholarship, what is learned from books, book-learning;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...virtutem praeparant. Quemadmodum prima illa, ut antiqui vocabant, litteratura, per quam pueris elementa traduntur, non docet liberales artes..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ipsam nunc uolumus significare subphilostantiam, ut grammatice litteratura est, non litteratrix quem ad modum oratrix, nec litteratoria quem..."