Proprietatem habere

Latin Construction

proprietatem habere.

1. To have a distinctive property or characteristic.

Loci

• αʹ Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.2:

Veneri, Florae, Proserpinae, Fonti, Lumphis Corinthio genere constitutae aptas videbuntur habere proprietates, quod his diis propter teneritatem graciliora et florida foliisque et volutis ornata opera facta augere videbuntur iustum decorem.

[Temples] to Venus, Flora, Proserpine, Fons, and the Nymphs constructed in the Corinthian style seem to have the qualities appropriate to these gods on account of their tenderness; the works made slenderer and flowery, decorated with leaves and volutes, seem to enhance the beauty proper to them.

• βʹ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita 45.30:

pars prima Bisaltas habet, fortissimos viros—trans Nessum amnem incolunt et circa Strymonem—et multas frugum proprietates et metalla et opportunitatem Amphipolis

the first part has the Bisaltae, very brave men—they live across the river Nessus and by the Strymon—and mines, and many distinctive qualities in its crops, and the advantage of Amphipolis

• γʹ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 13.41:

similis et coccygia folio, magnitudine minor. proprietatem habet fructum amittendi lanugine (pappum vocant), quod nulli alii arbori evenit.

The smoketree, also, is similar in leaf, but of smaller size. It has the distinctive property of losing its fruit in its down (called pappus), which happens to no other tree.