promissio
Dictionary entries
- Entry →promissio, promissionis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
promise; act/instance of promising; guarantee that proof will come (rhetoric);
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...libera atque etiam effrenatior augendi causa, iracundia, obiurgatio, promissio, deprecatio, obsecratio, declinatio brevis a proposito, non ut superior..." - M
VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...curationis paret, quod videtur in alio fratre explicata promissio: an alterum medicus sanaverit, fortuna viderit; quod negari..."