Communicátio, Verb. Cicer.Communication: consultation: making of another pertaker in any matter.Communicatio ciuitatis.Cic.The making of one free in a citle.Societas & communicatio vtilitatem.Cic.Societie and imparting of prosites.Communicatio nominum. Plin. Quæ Græci communicatione nominum in ambiguo fecere. By giuing one name to both made doubtfull.Suauissima sermonis communicatio.Cic.Talking.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
commūnĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [communico] (several times in Cic., elsewh. rare), a making common, imparting, communicating.I. In gen.: largitio et communicatio civitatis, Cic. Balb. 13, 31: quaedam societas et communicatio utilitatum, id. Fin. 5, 23, 65: consilii, id. Fam. 5, 19, 2: sermonis, id. Att. 1, 17, 6: criminis cum pluribus, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14: nominum, i. e.
the like appellation of several objects
, Plin. 24, 14, 80, 129: juris, Dig. 23, 2, 1: damni, ib. 27, 3, 1, 14.—II. In rhet., a figure of speech, = a)nakoi/nwsis, in accordance with which one turns to his hearers, and, as it were, allows them to take part in the inquiry, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204; Quint. 9, 1, 30; 9, 2, 20 and 23.