praetextus
Meaning
- Outward appearance
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
causa ficta, speciēspraetextus -ūs (m) — in IVLIANVS II: Imperium, ch. 7
praetextus, ūs (but found only in
I. abl. sing.; cf. praetextum, s. v. praetexo fin.), m. praetexo.
I. Outward appearance, show, ornament, display, splendor, consequence (post-Aug.):
majore praetextu, Tac. H. 1, 19: praetextu senatūs, id. ib. 1, 76: plurimorum et maximorum operum praetextu, Val. Max. 4, 4, 1; Manil. 3, 129. —II. A pretence, pretext, color (not anteAug.):
decretum sub leni praetextu verborum factum est, Liv. 36, 6, 5: sub praetextu, Petr. 97: hoc praetextu, under this pretence, Just. 29, 3: latrocinii, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 10, 8.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
praetextus adj.
P. of praetexo, bordered, edged : toga, bordered with purple (worn by the higher magistrates; also by free-born children less than seventeen years of age): aedilicia: togae praetextae habendae ius, L.: eripies pupillae togam praetextam?—As subst f., the toga praetexta : tu in praetextā esse consulatum putas?— Wearing the toga praetexta, with a purple border on the mantle : videre praetextos inimicos, i. e. in supreme power .—As subst f . (sc. fabula), a play in which the bordered toga is worn, tragedy (because eminent Romans were among the characters): praetextas docere, H.
(praetextus, ūs) m
TEC-, a show, display, pretence, pretext (only abl sing .): sub leni praetextu verborum, L.: praetextu senatūs, Ta.
In English words that came into English from praetextus
- pretextpraetextum