[Remark: this dictionary entry has no valid XML/HTML content in database so a text version of this entry is shown.]: <orth>Commentárius</orth>, m. g. vel Commentárium, commentárij n. g. Suet. <p> <sense><trans lang="en">Abridgement or booke containing things briesly written: A booke of notes or remembrance: a register. A briefe historie containing the actes of any person. A briefe note of instruction. A comment or exposition.</trans> <I>Diurni commentarij.</I> Suet. <trans lang="en">A iournall containing things for euery day.</trans> <I>Commentarij authorum.</I> Plin. <trans lang="en">Bookes of notes that authors make.</trans> <I>Grammaticorum commentarij.</I> <bibl><author>Quintil.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Shortnotes of grammer: grammarians workes.</trans> <I>Pontificum commentarium.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">The register of.</trans> <I>Rerum vrbanarum commentarium.</I> Cælius <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">A booke or register wherein the actes of the citie are briefly noted.</trans> <I>In Rhetotum commentarijs consenescere.</I> Quint. <I>Commentarium paulò plenius.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Notes of remembrance somewhat largely written.</trans> <I>A commentacijs.</I> Vide A. <I> Summatim breuitér</I><03> de vita alicuius cõmentariÛ componere. Suet. <trans lang="en">To make short and briefe notes of ones life.</trans> <I>Conficere commentarios.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To draw out a briefe memoriall of things.</trans> <I>Publicis commentarijs consignati fundi.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Registers.</trans> <I>Breuiores commentarios facere.</I> Quint. <I>Ex commentatio dictaturam gerere.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>In commentarijs antiquis inuenire aliquid.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">In olde registers.</trans> <PB> <I>Legere commentarios Atistotelicos.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">His bookes.</trans> <I>Ex commentarijs quærere aliquid.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To seeke out of the registers or bookes.</trans> <I>Referre in commentarios.</I> Traianus ad Plin. <trans lang="en">To register: to write into a briefe cronicle or like booke.</trans> <I>Manu sua referre in commentarium aliquid.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">To write into a booke with his owne hande.</trans> <I>In commentarium principis referre aliquem.</I> Modest. <I>Regere aliquid in commentarios.</I> Quint. <I>Rerum suarum commentarios relinquere.</I> Suet. <trans lang="en">To leaue briefe notes of his actes.</trans> <I>In commentarijs alicuius reperite aliquid.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>Scribere commentarios, Idem quod consicere.</I> <bibl><author>Plin. iun.</author></bibl> <I>Superare memoriam aliquorum commentario.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>In commentarijs breuiter rangere locum aliquem.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <I>Voluere commentarios alicuius.</I> <bibl><author>Liu.</author></bibl> <I> Commentatius, Pro compendiosa historia, quales sunt Commentarij Cæsatis.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">A briefe historie.</trans> <I>Ex annalium monumentis, atque ex regum commentarijs conquirere aliquid.</I> <bibl><author>Cic.</author></bibl> <trans lang="en">Dut of princes registers.</trans> <I> Commentaria componere in authorem aliquem.</I> Gell. </sense>
Commentor, commentâris, commentâtus sum, commentári, Frequentatiuum Comminiscor. Plaut.To muse or thinkeon: to make mention: to dispute, common, or reason of: to write commentaries or bookes of remembraunce: to deuise: to inuent or imagine a false tale. Commentari aliquem.Plaut.To counterfeite one. Commentari.Cic.To muse and thinke of.Futuras mecum commentabar miserias.Cic.I did cast in my minde miseries to come. Commentari, Dilputare.Cic.To dispute or talke of.Commentari & meditari de aliqua re.Cic.To talke and deuise of a thing.Plures dies in villa commentari.Cic.To talke of.Commentandi causa atque inter se colloquendi congregantur.Cic.To debate and talke of matters.Multos annos aliquid commentari.Cic.Inter se commentari qua ratione traducendum sit eis tempus.Cic.To debate and reason one with the other.Cum aliquo quotidie commentari.Cic. Commentatus est Mimos.Cic.He inuented.Agere causam, & cõmentari. Ci. Exislein ædes eo colore & ijs oculis, vt egisle causam, non commentatum putares. OrationÊ in aliquem commentari.Cic.To inuent or make. Quum commentareinur hæc. Plin. When we made and wrote this.Commentari aliquid de disciplina militari. Plin. To deuise and write, &c.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
commentārĭus, ii, m. (sc. liber; both together, Gell. 13, 20, 17); commentā-rĭum, ii, n. (sc. volumen, Varr. L. L. 6, 90 Müll.; Cic. Brut. 44, 164; cf. commentariolum) [commentor]. I. Orig. a note-book, sketch-book, memorandum: diurni,
a journal
, Suet. Aug. 64.—II. As the title of a book on any subject, but esp. historical, which is only sketched down or written without care (mostly in plur.), a sketch, a paper, memoirs, a commentary, etc., Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 10; Liv. 42, 6, 3; Quint. 2, 11, 7; 3, 8, 58; 3, 8, 67; 8, 2, 12; 10, 7, 30 al.; Tac. A. 6, 47; Suet. Tib. 61 et saep. Thus the two works of Cæsar upon the Gallic and civil wars are called Commentarii, commentaries, Cic. Brut. 75, 262; Hirt. and Asin. Pollio ap. Suet. Caes. 56.—Of a single book: superiore commentario, i. e.
in the Seventh Book
, Hirt. B. G. 8, 30; cf. Gai Inst. 2, 23; 2, 145.—B. Esp. 1.A commentary, exposition, brief explanation, annotation: commentarium in Vergilium, Gell. 2, 6, 1; cf. id. 1, 12; 1, 21.—2. In law, a brief, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, 54.—3.The day-book of an accounting officer, Inscr. Grut. 592, 4; Inscr. Orell. 2904.—4.A collection of examples or citations, Quint. 1, 8, 19.—5.A pupil's notes of a lecture or lesson, Quint. 3, 6, 59.
commento, āvi, 1, v. act., collat. form of 1. commentor, q. v. (cf. Prisc. p. 797 P.), to delineate, sketch; only trop.: ora, humorously, qs. to demonstrate on the face, for to cudgel or beat, Plaut. Men. 5, 7, 30 dub. (Brix, commetavi; cf. 2. commeto).—Hence, b. commentātus, a, um, pass.: ut sua et commentata et scripta... meminisset, Cic. Brut. 88, 301 (just before: secum commentatus in act. signif.): oratio, Q. Cic. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 26, 1.