locus classicus

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An authoritative passage from a standard work that is often quoted as an illustration; a classic case or example.
    — This famous passage of Scripture, this locus classicus, or prerogative text, pleaded for the verbatim et literatim inspiration of the Bible, is the following; and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.
  2. The locality from which a taxon was first described.

词形变化

loci classici plural

词源

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