articulosus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

artĭcŭlōsus, a, um, adj. [articulus], full of joints, or (of plants) full of knots (v. articulus, I.).

I Lit.: radix, Plin. 24, 16, 93, § 150.—

II Trop., of discourse (v. articulus, II. A.): vitanda concisa nimium et velut articulosa partitio, full of minute divisions and subdivisions , Quint. 4, 5, 24 (cf. just before: divisio in digitos diducta).