LAT

Lewis Short

junctūra (noun F) : id.
* A joining, uniting; a juncture, joint (poet. and post-Aug.).
* Lit.: boum,Col. 2, 2 22: genuum,Ov. M. 2, 823: ut umor teneat juncturas,i. e. the commissures, joints,Plin. 16, 40, 79, § 214: quadrato saxo murus ducatur juncturis quam longissimis,Vitr. 5, 12, 6: laterum juncturas fibula mordet,the two ends of the girdle which meet,Verg. A. 12, 274.
* Transf.
* Trop., a connection: generis,i. e. relationship, consanguinity,Ov. H. 4, 135.
* A team (postclass.): carruca cum junctura legata,Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 91.
* In partic.
* Rhet.: in omni compositione tria sunt necessaria, ordo, junctura, numerus,Quint. 9, 4, 32.
* Gram., a joining together, compounding: dixeris egregie, notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum,Hor. A. P. 47.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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