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
- M
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..." - P
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..."