I.an impropriety of speech; e. g.: “sperare for timere,” Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 419 (in pure Lat. improprium or impropria dictio is used instead of it: (quod proprietati est contrarium) id apud nos improprium, ἄκυρον apud Graecos vocatur; quale est tantum sperare dolorem; Quint. 8, 2, 3; cf. Don. ap. Lind. Corp. Gr. 1, 28; Charis. p. 242; Diom. 2, p. 444).
ăcȳrŏlŏgĭa , ae, f., = ἀκυρολογία, in rhetoric,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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