suasoria
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From suāsōr through suāsōrius.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /su.aːˈsoː.ri.a/, [s̠uäːˈs̠oːriä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /su.aˈso.ri.a/, [suäˈs̬ɔːriä]
Noun[edit]
suāsōria f (genitive suāsōriae); first declension
- A type of declamatio (a rhetorical exercise) that is deliberative or suasory
- c. 102 CE, Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus 35:
- Nempe enim duō genera māteriārum apud rhētorās tractantur, suāsōriae et contrōversiae.
- Yes, indeed, two kinds of subjects are discussed by rhetoricians: suasory, and disputing declamations.
- Nempe enim duō genera māteriārum apud rhētorās tractantur, suāsōriae et contrōversiae.
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | suāsōria | suāsōriae |
| Genitive | suāsōriae | suāsōriārum |
| Dative | suāsōriae | suāsōriīs |
| Accusative | suāsōriam | suāsōriās |
| Ablative | suāsōriā | suāsōriīs |
| Vocative | suāsōria | suāsōriae |
References[edit]
- “suasoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press