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descriptione

descriptione is a Latin form of descriptio, meaning “description/descriptive story; drawing of diagram/plan; indictment”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 5.6.13: Magnam capies voluptatem, si hunc regionis situm ex monte prospexeris. Neque enim terras tibi sed formam aliquam ad eximiam pulchritudinem pictam videberis cernere: ea varietate, ea descriptione, quocumque inciderint oculi, reficientur.

All forms of descriptio (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.