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PRONUNCIATION OF QUINTILIAN

Quintilian  [kwɪnˈtɪljən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUINTILIAN

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adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Quintilian is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES QUINTILIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quintilian

Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian, although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.

Definition of Quintilian in the English dictionary

The definition of Quintilian in the dictionary is Latin name Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. ?35–?96 ad, Roman rhetorician and teacher.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUINTILIAN


alien
ˈeɪljən
billion
ˈbɪljən
Brazilian
brəˈzɪljən
Castilian
kæˈstɪljən
centillion
sɛnˈtɪljən
civilian
sɪˈvɪljən
cotillion
kəˈtɪljən
cotillon
kəˈtɪljən
million
ˈmɪljən
octillion
ɒkˈtɪljən
pavilion
pəˈvɪljən
postilion
pɒˈstɪljən
postillion
pɒˈstɪljən
quintillion
kwɪnˈtɪljən
septillion
sɛpˈtɪljən
sextillion
sɛksˈtɪljən
trillion
ˈtrɪljən
vermilion
vəˈmɪljən
vermillion
vəˈmɪljən
vigintillion
ˌvaɪdʒɪnˈtɪljən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUINTILIAN

Quintana Roo
quintar
quinte
quintessence
quintessential
quintessentially
quintet
quintette
quintic
quintile
quintillion
quintillionth
Quintin

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUINTILIAN

Australian
Azilian
Basilian
bilian
caecilian
crocodilian
exilian
Ismailian
Italian
lacertilian
Maximilian
perfectibilian
postexilian
pre-exilian
reptilian
Sicilian
Swahilian
Vergilian
vespertilian
Virgilian

Synonyms and antonyms of Quintilian in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Quintilian» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUINTILIAN

Find out the translation of Quintilian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Quintilian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Quintilian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

昆体良
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Quintiliano
570 millions of speakers

English

Quintilian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Quintilian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Quintilian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Квинтилиан
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Quintiliano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Quintilian
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Quintilien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Quintilian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Quintilian
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Quintilian
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

퀸 틸리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quintilian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Quintilian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குவிண்டிலியன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्विंटलिलियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Quintilian
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Quintiliano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kwintyliana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Квінтіліан
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Quintilian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Κουιντίλιαν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Quintilianus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Quintilianus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Quintilianus
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Quintilian

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUINTILIAN»

The term «Quintilian» is regularly used and occupies the 96.171 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Quintilian

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINTILIAN»

Discover the use of Quintilian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Quintilian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Quintilian on the Teaching of Speaking and Writing: ...
The first two books of theInstitutio oratorioconcern the early education of the orator, with the focus on the interplay between seen-language and heard-language. Book Ten is an adult’s commentary on the instruction of rhetoric.
Quintilian, James Jerome Murphy, 1987
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The Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian
Quintilian. confessionem, paenitentiam, modum, copiam, nu- 87 merum, tempus ostendimus ? Non eaedem conci- tant, inhibent,i probant, admirantur, verecundantur ? Non in demonstrandis locis ac personis adverbiorum atque pronominum ...
Quintilian, 1922
3
Quintilian and the Law: The Art of Persuasion in Law and ...
The essays in this book reflect the wide range of subjects discussed by Quintilian.
Olga Eveline Tellegen-Couperus, 2003
4
Arguments in Rhetoric Against Quintilian: Translation and ...
First published in 1986, this book offers the Latin text and English translation of a pivotal work by one of the most influential and controversial writers of early modern times.
Peter Ramus, James J. Murphy, 2010
5
Quintilian: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Quintilian evidently adopted as his model Domitius Afer, who died in 59, and listened to him speak and plead cases in the law courts. Sometime after Afer's death, Quintilian returned to Spain, possibly to practice law in the courts of his own ...
Oxford University Press, 2010
6
Education: Ends and Means
Quintilian (A.D. 35-95), Roman rhetorician, was born at Calagurris in Spain. His father taught rhetoric in Rome, and it is thought that Quintilian came there at a young age to live, and must have grown up there. He returned to Spain for the years ...
Plato, Julius A. Sigler, Anne Marshall Huston, 1997
7
The Lesser Declamations
The Lesser Declamations perhaps date from the second century CE and are perhaps derived from Quintilian. The collection originally consisted of 388 sample cases for legal training. 145 survive.
Quintilian, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, 2006
8
The tenth and twelfth books of the Institutions of ...
which are elaborate, most of them, however, merely sketches 01 studies, and few of them bearing any resemblance to the writings of Quintilian. The other is the elegant treatise entitled Diahgus de Oratoribus, usually published with the works  ...
Quintilian, 1887
9
Classical Rhetoric & Its Christian & Secular Tradition from ...
The goal of education to Quintilian is training of a great orator. This orator must be morally good, and ethics is never far from Quintilian's mind; but the orator he envisions is more a part of the sophistic tradition as envisioned by Isocrates than  ...
George Alexander Kennedy, 1999
10
Education in Ancient Rome: From the Elder Cato to the ...
Contrast Juvenal, I,16, 'consilium dedimus Sullae', with Quintilian, III,8,53, 'verba.. . Sullae'. lb., 49. Polybius, XII, 25a and b. Quintilian, II, 5, 19. Livy, XXII,59 and 60. For Silius, R. Rebischke, De Silii Italici Orationibus (Diss., Königsberg, 1913); ...
Stanley Bonner, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUINTILIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Quintilian is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Dear Shashi Tharoor, the fault was not in the Raj, but in ourselves
The Roman tutor of oratory Quintilian would have approved of Tharoor's flourishes, his humour, his lightness of touch juxtaposed with the gravity of his subject. «Economic Times, Jul 15»
2
Wall Street's titans mourn the loss of legendary rainmaker Jimmy Lee
He never forgot if you did him a favor. He is what I aspired to be on Wall Street. Everybody respected him," Joseph Quintilian, a partner at Axiom Markets, said. «Business Insider, Jun 15»
3
The philosophy of perception
In the development of modern chiaroscuro, Renaissance painters reconstructed the practice of skiagraphia from the writings of Pliny and Quintilian. (Alas, the ... «OUPblog, Feb 15»
4
The love song and its complex gender history
Quintilian, complaining about the music of the early Roman Imperial era, griped that songs had been “emasculated by the lascivious melodies of our effeminate ... «OUPblog, Feb 15»
5
Rhetorical Questions
Skinner has set out to demonstrate that the Latin rhetorical tradition of Cicero, Quintilian, and various Renaissance textbooks with which Shakespeare became ... «Washington Free Beacon, Jan 15»
6
The Classical World from A to Z
Quintilian, a Roman rhetorician, advised that children start learning Greek before Latin. The Roman Empire was bilingual at the official, and multilingual at the ... «OUPblog, Nov 14»
7
Pupils remember Perth-based Dutch language teacher Dafne Nieveen
About 40 children, aged between four and 11, were brought together in the music room at Quintilian School in Mount Claremont on Tuesday morning. «Perth Now, Jul 14»
8
The tongue-tied Britons abroad
He was doubtful whether the youngsters among them would know any Latin, or master the grammatical lexicon of Quintilian, but he thought they would at least ... «Times Higher Education, May 14»
9
The Last Trojan Hero by Philip Hardie, review
'No, Virgil, no,” wrote WH Auden, chiding the Latin poet for his excess of cleverness. “Miserable flatterer” was Byron's judgment. The ancient critic Quintilian, ever ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 14»
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Princeton junior Stoner wins Beinecke Scholarship for graduate …
In addition to her coursework, she is writing an independent paper on the first-century Roman rhetorician and teacher Quintilian and his idea of a moral ... «Princeton University, Apr 14»

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