appellātĭo (noun F) : 2. appello.
* A going to one in order to accost or make a request of him (not found in earlier Lat.).
* An address, an accosting: hanc nactus appellationis causam, this opportunity for an address or appeal, Caes. B. C. 2, 28.—Hence
* Esp.
* A calling by name, a naming: neque nominum ullorum intereos appellatio est,Plin. 5, 8, 8, § 45.—Hence, meton. syn. with nomen, name, title, appellation (mostly post-Aug.): voluit appellatione hac inani nobis esse par,Cic. Att. 5, 20, 4: regum appellationes venales erant,id. Dom. 50: qui non aura, non procella, sed mares appellatione quoque ipsā venti sunt,Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116; Tac. A. 3, 56; Suet. Ner. 55; id. Aug. 100; id. Dom. 13; id. Tib. 67; id. Vesp. 12: nihil esse rem publicam, appellationem modo,a mere name,id. Caes. 77.
* In gram.
* Pronunciation: suavitas vocis et lenis appellatio litterarum,Cic. Brut. 74, 259; Quint. 11, 3, 35 (cf. 2. appello, II. E.).
* A substantive, Quint. 9, 3, 9; cf. id. 1, 4, 20, and Scaurus ap. Diom. p. 306 P.

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