gabinian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to the gens Gabinia, a plebeian family of Ancient Rome.
adj
Of or pertaining to the gens Gabinia, a plebeian family of Ancient Rome.
Example Sentences
- "Cicero appears to have been of this opinion, as we find him in his dialogue on friendship, objecting to the Gabinian law, by which ballot was enacted in lieu of oral voting, on the ground that the populace would gain the ascendancy in elections; a degree of freedom to which he was averse."
- "Josephus says nothing of Samareitis, but the Samaritans had a council in the first century A.D., which was probably a survival of a Gabinian council: it probably sat at Shechem."
Etymology
From Gabinius + -ian.