Significo
From TTT
Latin-English
signĭfĭc|ō, -āre, -āvī, -ātum. (siɡˈni.fi.ko) v. trans.
- To mean; to signify, to indicate.
Loci
- αʹ Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.7:
| Ut "malus" arborem significet an hominem non bonum apice distinguitur, "palus" aliud priore syllaba longa, aliud sequenti significat, et cum eadem littera nominativo casu brevis, ablativo longa est, utrum sequamur plerumque hac nota monendi sumus. | As malus may mean "a tree" or "a bad man", it is marked with an apex; palus means one thing when the former syllable is long, and another when the subsequent syllable is; and when the same letter is short in the nominative case and long in the ablative, we usually need to be advised by this symbol which reading to follow. |
