definitivus
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English
definitivus definitiva, definitivum ADJ :: definitive, explanatory; involving definition; definite, distinct, plain (L+S)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dēfīnītīvus: a, um, adj. definio.
I Definitive, explanatory. So in the rhet. lang. of Cicero: constitutio, Inv. 2, 17; cf. ib. 1, 13: causa, id. Top. 24 fin. And in the later jurid. Lat.: sententia, a decisive, definitive sentence, Cod. Just. 7, 45, 3; 7, 64, 10 al.—
II In late Lat. = definitus, definite, distinct, plain: materia, Tert. adv. Herm. 38.—Adv.: dēfīnītīvē, definitively, plainly, distinctly: pronuntiare, Tert. Car. Christ. 18: loqui, Cael. Aur. Acut. 1 praef.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dēfīnītīvus, a, um (definio),
1 limité, défini : Tert. Herm. 38
2 de définition, relatif à la définition : Cic. Inv. 2, 52 ; Top. 92
3 décisif : Cod. Just. 7, 45, 3.
Latin > German (Georges)
dēfīnītīvus, a, um (definio), I) begriffsbestimmend, näher erläuternd, constitutio (Begründung), Cic.: causa, Cic.: sententia, der entscheidende Ausspruch, die Schlußsentenz, Cod. Iust. u. Eccl. – II) bestimmt, Tert. adv. Herm. 38.
