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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
epistula f (genitive epistulae); first declension
- alternative form of epistola
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “epistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “epistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "epistula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- epistula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to write a letter to some one: epistulam (litteras) dare, scribere, mittere ad aliquem
- a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
- to charge some one with a letter for some one else: epistulam dare alicui ad aliquem
- to deliver a letter to some one (used of the messenger): epistulam reddere alicui (Att. 5. 21. 4)
- correspondence: epistularum commercium
- to seal, fasten a letter: epistulam signare, obsignare
- to open a letter: epistulam solvere, aperire, resignare (of Romans also linum incīdere)
- to intercept a letter: epistulam intercipere (Att. 1. 13. 2)
- to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere