litteraturam
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;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...modum demus: et grammatice, quam in Latinum transferentes litteraturam uocauerunt, fines suos norit, praesertim tantum ab hac appellationis..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...novas litterarum formas addidit vulgavitque, comperto Graecam quoque litteraturam non simul coeptam absolutamque. Primi per figuras animalium Aegyptii..."
