contextus
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
contextus: a, um, Part. and P. a., from contexo.
contextus: ūs, m. contexo,
I a joining or putting together, a connection (class.; esp. freq. in the trop. signif., and in Quint.).
I Lit.: corporum, * Lucr. 1, 243: aedificiorum, the building of, Dig. 39, 2, 15: ratis, Aus. Per. Odyss. 5.—
II Trop., connection, coherence (very freq. in Quint.): mirabilis est apud illos (sc. Stoicos) contextus rerum: respondent extrema primis, etc., Cic. Fin. 5, 28, 83; cf.: in toto quasi contextu orationis, id. Part. Or. 23, 82; and: rerum ac verborum, Quint. 11, 2, 2: verborum, id. 11, 2, 28; 11, 2, 24: sermonis, id. 8, 3, 38: dicendi, id. 10, 7, 26: per partes dissolvitur, quod contextu nocet, id. 5, 13, 28; 9, 4, 55. historia non tam finitos numeros quam orbem quendam contextumque desiderat, id. 9, 4, 129; cf. Ernest. Lex. Techn. p. 90: litterarum, the succession of the letters, id. 1, 1, 24 sq.; cf.: in contextu operis, in the course, Tac. H. 2, 8.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) contextus,¹⁶ a, um, part. de contexo.
(2) contextŭs,¹² ūs, m.,
1 assemblage : Lucr. 1, 243 ; Cic. Fin. 5, 32
2 [fig.] réunion, enchaînement : Cic. Fin. 5, 83 || succession [de lettres] : Quint. 1, 1, 24 || contexture d’un discours : Cic. Part. 82 ; in contextu operis Tac. H. 2, 8, au cours de l’ouvrage.
