locus
Definitiones
- place (referring to a specific location)
- a passage of literature
- opportunity; cause; occasion; grounds
- a region or general geographic area
Aequivalentia
Exempla
“aliquem in alicuius locum substituere”
to put someone in place of another
“c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 2.1.565–8:hypotactic.com AMPHITRUŌ: Tūn mē, verberō, audēs erum lūdificārī? Tūne id dīcere audēs, quod nēmō umquam homō antehāc vīdit nec potest fīerī, tempore ūnō homō īdem duōbus locīs ut simul sit? AMPHITRUO: You scoundrel; you dare to play tricks on me? You dare to claim something which no man has seen before, as it cannot be done, that one”
man can be in two places at the same time?
“Est in sēcessū longō locus: īnsula portum”
There is a place in deep isolation: [Here] an island, by the jutting of [its] sides, forms a harbor ….
Gradus CEFR
B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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