Commentátio, Verb. Plin. A meditating: a denising of a thing: a debating or reasoning of.Meditatio & commentatio.Cic.A meditation and deepe musing of a thing.Multa commentatione atque meditatione paratos ato; expeditos locos habere. C. With great musing & meditatiõ.Cogitatio & commentatio.Cic.Causarum commentatio.Cic.Ameditating of causes before hand.Mortis commentatio.Cicer.The thinking of death before hand.Inclusa commentatio in veritatis lucem proferenda est. Ci. Commentatio, pro Descriptione. Plin. A deicription or setting out in writing.Accuratæ & meditatæ commentationes.Cic.Quotidianis commentatiombus sese exercere.Cic.In exercitationibus & commentationibus multum operæ ponere.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
commentātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.]. I. Abstr., a diligent meditation upon something, a studying, a careful preparation, mele/th (so perh. only in Cic.): loci multa commentatione atque meditatione parati, Cic. de Or. 2, 27, 118.—In plur., Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257; id. Brut. 71, 249; 27, 105: commentatio inclusa in veritatis lucem proferenda est, id. de Or. 1, 34, 157.— 2. As rhet. fig., = e)nqu/mhma, Quint. 5, 10, 1.—B.Trop.: tota philosophorum vita, ut ait idem (Socrates), commentatio mortis est, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 74 (transl. of Plat. Phaed. 12: *to\ mele/thma au)to\ tou=to/ e)sti tw=n filoso/fwn, lu/sis kai\ xwrismo\s *yuxh=s a)po\ sw/matos), commentatio ferendi doloris, id. ib. 2, 18, 42.—II. Concr., a learned work, treatise, dissertation, description (so perh. not ante-Aug.): commentatio (de naturā animalium), Plin. 8, 16, 17, 44; so, Indiae, id. 6, 17, 21, 60. —In plur., Plin. 28, 1, 2, 7; Gell. praef. 4.