This week’s theme
Words relating to books

This week’s words
bildungsroman
longueur
peripeteia
locus classicus
litterateur

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PRONUNCIATION:

(LO-kuhs KLAS-i-kuhs)

MEANING:

noun: An authoritative and often quoted passage from a book.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin locus (place) + classicus (classical, belonging to the first or highest class). Earliest documented use: 1853.

USAGE:

“Controversy still rages over what is perhaps the locus classicus of such accounts, given by T.E. Lawrence.”
Joan Smith: The Ancient Fears Stirred by Women at War; The Independent (London, UK); Apr 2, 2007.

See more usage examples of locus classicus in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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