negotiatio

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

nĕgōtĭātĭo (nĕgōc-), ōnis, f. [negotior],

a doing business by the wholesale, wholesale business, banking business; also in gen., any business or traffic (class.): reliquiae Asiaticae negotiationis, Cic. Fam. 6 8, 2; 13, 66, 2: negotiationes vel privato pudendae, Suet. Vesp. 16; Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 157: pecuaria, Col. 8, 1, 1: sagaria et lintearia, Dig. 14, 4, 5: cum quis tabernae aut cuilibet negotiationi filium servumve ... praeposuerit, Gai. Inst. 4, 71: argenti, Vulg. Prov. 3, 14: nolite facere domum Patris mei domum negotiationis, ib. Joan. 2, 16.

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