Significátio, significatiónis. Verbale. Author ad Her. A signification: a declaring: a notifying.Inueterauit aliena verbi significatio. Gell. Significatio virtutis vel probitatis.Cic.Significario aduentus. Cesar. Nequa cius aduentus procul significatio fiat. That there may be no token of his comming a fatte of.lácere significationes, Vide IACIO. Vtex ipsa significatione potuit cognosci. Cesar. As they gaue to vnderstande by the maner of doing.Significatione vna literarum. Ci. By on onely signification, or aduertisment that he made by letters.Ex quibus magna significatio fit non adesse constantiam.Cic.Whereby euident token is giuen, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
signĭfĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.]. I.A pointing out, indicating, denoting, signifying; an expression, indication, mark, sign, token, = indicium, signum, e)pishmasi/a, etc. (freq. and class.). (a).Absol.: gestus sententiam non demonstratione sed significatione declarans, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: aliquem nutu significationeque appellare, id. Fam. 1, 9, 20: ignibus significatione factā. Caes. B. G. 2, 33: significatione per castella fumo factā, id. B. C. 3, 65; id. B. G. 7, 81.—With subj. gen.: ex significatione Gallorum, Caes. B. G. 7, 12 fin.: litterarum, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7.—(b). With obj. gen. (so most freq.): voluntatis, Cic. Clu. 11, 31: victoriae, Caes. B. G. 5, 53: adventus, id. ib. 6, 29fin.: virtutis, Cic. Lael. 14, 48; cf. id. Off. 1, 15, 46: significatio calamitatum, id. Div. 2, 25, 54: artificii, id. de Or. 2, 30, 153: probitatis, id. Lael. 9, 32; id. Fam. 5, 7, 2 et saep.—Plur.: valetudinis significationes, Cic. Div. 2, 69, 142: rerum futurarum, id. N. D. 2, 66, 166. —(g). With object-clause (very rare): ex quibus magna significatio fit, non adesse constantiam, Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.—Plur.: multas nec dubias significationes saepe jecit: ne reliquis quidem se parsurum senatoribus, Suet. Ner. 37.—II. In partic. A. Pregn., like the Gr. e)pishmasi/a, a sign or token of assent, an expression of approbation, applause: populi judiciis atque omni significatione florere, Cic. Sest. 49, 105; cf. id. ib. 57, 122; 59, 127: ut ex ipsā significatione potuit cognosci, Caes. B. C. 1, 86.— Plur., Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, 42: significationibus acclamationibus multitudinis, Liv. 31, 15, 2 (corresp. to assentatio).—B. Also, like e)pishmasi/a, a sign, token, foretoken, prognostic of the weather (Plinian): est et aquarum significatio, etc.... caeli quidem murmur non dubiam habet significationem. Praesagiunt et animalia, Plin. 18, 35, 85, 359 sq.—C. In rhet. lang., significance, emphasis: significatio est, quae plus in suspicione relinquit, quam positum est in oratione, Auct. Her. 4, 53, 67; Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203; id. Or. 40, 139; Quint. 9, 2, 3 (as a transl. of the Gr. e)/mfasis).—D. In gram., meaning, sense, import, signification of a word or phrase: verbi, Varr. L. L. 9, 40 Müll.: scripti, Cic. Part. Or. 31, 108; cf. id. ib. 38, 132: est igitur tropus sermo a naturali et principali significatione translatus ad aliam, Quint. 9, 1, 4: ejusdem verbi contraria significatio, id. 9, 3, 68: voces eaedem diversā in significatione ponuntur, id. 9, 3, 69: verborum, id. 10, 1, 10: latens, id. 10, 1, 90: propriae, Gell. 12, 13, 2.—So the titles of the lexical works of Aelius Gallus, Verrius Flaccus, Festus, etc.: De verborum Significatione or Significationibus.—E.Meaning, intent: duas significationes habet propositio vestra,