redundantia

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

rĕdundantĭa, ae, f. [redundans], an overflowing, superfluity, excess. *

I Lit.: aër crassus, qui non habet crebras redundantias, Vitr. 1, 6 med.

II Trop., redundancy , excess , of language, feeling, etc.: illa pro Roscio juvenilis redundantia, Cic. Or. 30, 108: benignitatis, Tert. Apol. 31: carere redundantiā et egestate, Ap. Dogm. Plat. 2, 5.

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