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subtilitate

subtilitate is a Latin form of subtilitas, meaning “fineness, precision, subtlety”. It is the ablative singular feminine noun.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.56: … cuius onus disputando levamus docentes, quam parva et quam pauca sint quae natura desideret, aut a disputandi subtilitate orationem ad exempla traducimus. hic Socrates commemoratur, hic Diogenes, hic Caecilianum illud: saepe est et …

Vitruvius, On Architecture 4.1.8: Subtilitate et ornatu symmetriaque sunt mutuati. posteri vero elegantia subtilitateque iudiciorum progressi et graciliori …

All forms of subtilitas (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.