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locus classicus

noun

Etymology

From New Latin locus classicus (literally “classical place”).

  1. borrowed from locus classicus

Definitions

  1. An authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration

    An authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration; a classic case or example.

    • The Lines written above Tintern Abbey have become, as it were, the locus classicus or consecrated formulary of the Wordsworthian faith.
    • Which recalls the address to the sun in Carthous—“O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers,”—perhaps the most hackneyed locus classicus in the entire work; or as the lines beginning, […]

  2. The locality from which a taxon was first described.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA