rhetorica

• rhēt. (abbreviation)

From Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós), through ῥητορικὴ τέχνη (rhētorikḕ tékhnē).

rhētorica n pl (genitive rhētoricōrum); second declension

1. rhetoric

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

rhētorica f (genitive rhētoricae); first declension

1. Alternative form of rhētoricē (“rhetoric”)

First-declension noun.

rhētorica

1. inflection of rhētoricus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

rhētoricā

1. ablative feminine singular of rhētoricus

• “rhetorica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rhetorica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhetorica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “rhetorica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rhētoricus” on page 1,652/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)