litteraturas
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. pl.
Examples
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..."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..."