spectabile
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Spectabilis, Spectabilis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Government
Respectable, title of high officers of late empire; (below Illustres);
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg. - Entry →spectabilis, spectabilis, spectabile:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
noteworthy, outstanding; worth consideration/looking at; able to be seen;
abl. sg. (all)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...capto eripietur agello, ipsi deinde Lares, si quod spectabile signum. [si quis in aedicula deus unicus; haec etenim..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...bono placuisse;consentire in hoc plures insignes et spectabiles viri debent, ut claritassit. Haec autem ex iudiciis plurium..."
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...pariter tremit ignea fuco purpura, quod gemina mater spectabile tela duxit opus: bis Taygeton silvasque comantes struxerat, Eurotan..."
