suasoria

Latin

Etymology

From suāsōr through suāsōrius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /su.aːˈsoː.ri.a/, [s̠uäːˈs̠oːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /su.aˈso.ri.a/, [suäˈs̬ɔːriä]

Noun

suāsōria f (genitive suāsōriae); first declension

1. A type of declamatio (a rhetorical exercise) that is deliberative or suasory
   • c. 102 CE, Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus 35:

     Nempe enim duō genera māteriārum apud rhētorās tractantur, suāsōriae et contrōversiae.

     Yes, indeed, two kinds of subjects are discussed by rhetoricians: suasory, and disputing declamations.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	suāsōria	suāsōriae
genitive	suāsōriae	suāsōriārum
dative	suāsōriae	suāsōriīs
accusative	suāsōriam	suāsōriās
ablative	suāsōriā	suāsōriīs
vocative	suāsōria	suāsōriae

References

• “suasoria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press