spectabilem
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);
acc. 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;
acc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
- P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Agrippina referretur, ut memoravi, quodque Iuvenalium ludicro parum spectabilem operam praebuerat; eaque offensio altius penetrabat, quia idem Thrasea..." - P
Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...aciem in his vestigiis, in quibus pulchram et spectabilem victoriam ederetis. Transigite cum expeditionibus, imponite quinquaginta annis magnum..."
