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orationis

orationis is a Latin form of oratio, meaning “speech, oration; language, way of speaking; eloquence”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 513 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.43.4: Ubi eo ventum est, Caesar initio orationis sua senatusque in eum beneficia commemoravit, quod rex appellatus esset a senatu, quod amicus, quod munera amplissime missa; quam rem et paucis contigisse et pro magnis hominum officiis consuesse tribui docebat;

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 5.46: … e est, candiduli dentes, venusti oculi, color suavis et ea quae Anticlea laudat Ulixi pedes abluens: Lénitudo orátionis, móllitudo córporis. ea si bona ducemus, quid erit in philosophi gravitate quam in volgi opinione stultorumqu …

Plautus, Epidicus 4.1.547b: Orátionis áciem contra cónferam.

All forms of oratio (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.