See glossa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "circa''' AD 95, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (author), Harold Edgeworth Butler (editor, translator), Institutio Oratoria (1920), book I, chapter i, § 35",
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"translation": "He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way and, while he is still engaged on the first rudiments, acquire what would otherwise demand special time to be devoted to it. And as we are still discussing minor details, I would urge that the lines, which he is set to copy, should not express thoughts of no significance, but convey some sound moral lesson. ― translation from the same source"
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"english": "He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way and, while he is still engaged on the first rudiments, acquire what would otherwise demand special time to be devoted to it. And as we are still discussing minor details, I would urge that the lines, which he is set to copy, should not express thoughts of no significance, but convey some sound moral lesson. ― translation from the same source",
"ref": "circa''' AD 95, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (author), Harold Edgeworth Butler (editor, translator), Institutio Oratoria (1920), book I, chapter i, § 35",
"text": "protinus enim potest interpretationem linguae secretioris, quas Graeci γλώσσας vocant, dum aliud agitur, ediscere et inter prima elementa consequi rem postea proprium tempus desideraturam. et quoniam circa res adhuc tenues moramur, ii quoque versus, qui ad imitationem scribendi proponentur, non otiosas velim sententias habeant sed honestum aliquid monentes.",
"translation": "He can readily learn the explanations or glosses, as the Greeks call them, of the more obscure words by the way and, while he is still engaged on the first rudiments, acquire what would otherwise demand special time to be devoted to it. And as we are still discussing minor details, I would urge that the lines, which he is set to copy, should not express thoughts of no significance, but convey some sound moral lesson. ― translation from the same source"
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],
"glosses": [
"a term applied to collections of such words with explanations, a glossary",
"a series of glosses assembled into a commentary"
],
"links": [
[
"glossae",
"glossae#Latin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(in the plural, as glossae) a term applied to collections of such words with explanations, a glossary",
"(Medieval Latin) a series of glosses assembled into a commentary"
],
"raw_tags": [
"as glossae"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "glossārium"
},
{
"word": "glossātūra"
},
{
"word": "glossema"
}
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1",
"in-plural"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Medieval Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"a language, dialect, or peculiar idiom"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Medieval Latin) a language, dialect, or peculiar idiom"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "idiōma"
},
{
"word": "lingua"
}
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Medieval Latin"
],
"glosses": [
"an image or example (of a thing)"
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Medieval Latin) an image or example (of a thing)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "exemplum"
},
{
"word": "imāgō"
}
],
"tags": [
"Medieval-Latin",
"declension-1"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈɡɫoːs.sa]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈɡlɔs.sa]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "glossa"
}
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{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''an obsolete, foreign, rare, or'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"glossa"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "glossa",
"trace": ""
}
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