locus classicusn.

Brit.

/ˌləʊkəs ˈklasᵻkəs/,

/ˌlɒkəs ˈklasᵻkəs/, U.S.

/ˌloʊkəs ˈklæsəkəs/

Inflections: Plural loci classici.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin locus classicus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin locus classicus (1616 or earlier) < classical Latin locus locus n.¹ + classicus classic adj.

1. A passage regarded as the original or best known occurrence of a quotation, saying, theme, etc., or the principal authority on a subject.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > authoritative or standard book > [noun] > authoritative or standard passage, esp. ancient

locus classicus1657

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > passage > authoritative

locus classicus1657

1657 J. Robinson Triumph & Unity of Truth i. 20 It is Locus Classicus, a Signall place (sayes one) against the Papists, in which the perfection of the Scripture is demonstrated.

1830 M. Stuart Course Hebrew Study II. 117 Life and good, and death and evil; a locus classicus for explaining the sense of life and death in very many passages of Scripture.

1853 W. Bagehot in Prospective Rev. 9 433 These lines are, as it were, the locus classicus of fairy literature.

1864 H. Hayman Exercises Greek & Lat. Verse Introd. p. xxii If a special subject has a locus classicus, as chariot-racing..in the Electra of Sophocles.

1906 Dublin Rev. 139 136 All three principal Petrine texts are quoted, showing that then as now they were recognized as the loci classici upon the point.

1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France iii. 44 Sherlock Holmes's interview with a thinly disguised Mr Gladstone during his adventure of ‘The Second Stain’ is the locus classicus.

2006 R. Norton Mother Clap's Molly House (rev. ed.) 419 Juvenal's satire was the locus classicus for the ancient world's description of both male and female homosexuals.

2. In extended use: the place of origin, or place from which the best examples of something are said to come.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [phrase]

root?a1400

fons et origo mali1675

fons et origoa1686

locus classicus1906

1906 Ann. Bot. 20 304 Specimens raised at Kew from seeds gathered by Bourgeau in Gomera, the locus classicus of Statice brassicifolia, preserved the general facies of that form.

1968 Listener 29 Feb. 280/3 Beethoven is the locus classicus of the artist profoundly motivated by a political ideal.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 701/2 What made the Chicago Art Institute a locus classicus for the study of French drawings was the series of magnificent gifts presented..by Helen Regenstein.

1990 S. M. Dworetz Unvarnished Doctr. (1994) iv. 120 Locke's liberalism is the locus classicus of the separation of church and state.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	locus classicus
释义	locus classicusn. Brit. /ˌləʊkəs ˈklasᵻkəs/, /ˌlɒkəs ˈklasᵻkəs/, U.S. /ˌloʊkəs ˈklæsəkəs/ Inflections: Plural loci classici. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin locus classicus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin locus classicus (1616 or earlier) < classical Latin locus locus n.¹ + classicus classic adj. 1. A passage regarded as the original or best known occurrence of a quotation, saying, theme, etc., or the principal authority on a subject. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > authoritative or standard book > [noun] > authoritative or standard passage, esp. ancient locus classicus1657 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > passage > authoritative locus classicus1657 1657 J. Robinson Triumph & Unity of Truth i. 20 It is Locus Classicus, a Signall place (sayes one) against the Papists, in which the perfection of the Scripture is demonstrated. 1830 M. Stuart Course Hebrew Study II. 117 Life and good, and death and evil; a locus classicus for explaining the sense of life and death in very many passages of Scripture. 1853 W. Bagehot in Prospective Rev. 9 433 These lines are, as it were, the locus classicus of fairy literature. 1864 H. Hayman Exercises Greek & Lat. Verse Introd. p. xxii If a special subject has a locus classicus, as chariot-racing..in the Electra of Sophocles. 1906 Dublin Rev. 139 136 All three principal Petrine texts are quoted, showing that then as now they were recognized as the loci classici upon the point. 1966 M. R. D. Foot SOE in France iii. 44 Sherlock Holmes's interview with a thinly disguised Mr Gladstone during his adventure of ‘The Second Stain’ is the locus classicus. 2006 R. Norton Mother Clap's Molly House (rev. ed.) 419 Juvenal's satire was the locus classicus for the ancient world's description of both male and female homosexuals. 2. In extended use: the place of origin, or place from which the best examples of something are said to come. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [phrase] root?a1400 fons et origo mali1675 fons et origoa1686 locus classicus1906 1906 Ann. Bot. 20 304 Specimens raised at Kew from seeds gathered by Bourgeau in Gomera, the locus classicus of Statice brassicifolia, preserved the general facies of that form. 1968 Listener 29 Feb. 280/3 Beethoven is the locus classicus of the artist profoundly motivated by a political ideal. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 701/2 What made the Chicago Art Institute a locus classicus for the study of French drawings was the series of magnificent gifts presented..by Helen Regenstein. 1990 S. M. Dworetz Unvarnished Doctr. (1994) iv. 120 Locke's liberalism is the locus classicus of the separation of church and state. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1657
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