punctuality
punctuality
subs.
Use P. and V. τὸ καίριον.
Exactness: P. ἀκρίβεια, ἡ.
subs.
Use P. and V. τὸ καίριον.
Exactness: P. ἀκρίβεια, ἡ.
PUNCTUALITY
diligentia (carefulness); or by circumlocution with the adjective.
diligentia (carefulness); or by circumlocution with the adjective.
punctuality (in older writers, punctualness):
1. Exactness, observance of minute points; esp. of time: dīlĭgentia, Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 150: punctualities (in preserving the text, e. g. of SS.: v. Johnson), tenuis illa divisionis d., Quint. 4, 5, 6: cf. d. scribendi, id. 10, 1, 3, and 10, 3, 27: all depends on your good faith and p., in tua fide ac diligentia positum est, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 3: p. in executing commissions, mea d. mandatorum tuorum, Cic. Top. 5: p. in household affairs, domestica d., id. Oecon. 1. Join: cura et d.; assiduitas et d.; d. et industria. Want of p., neglĭgentia.
2. expr. by tempŏri (or e), or ad tempus, in their proper connection: v.PUNCTUAL (IV.).
1. Exactness, observance of minute points; esp. of time: dīlĭgentia, Cic. de Or. 2, 35, 150: punctualities (in preserving the text, e. g. of SS.: v. Johnson), tenuis illa divisionis d., Quint. 4, 5, 6: cf. d. scribendi, id. 10, 1, 3, and 10, 3, 27: all depends on your good faith and p., in tua fide ac diligentia positum est, Quint. Ep. ad Tryph. 3: p. in executing commissions, mea d. mandatorum tuorum, Cic. Top. 5: p. in household affairs, domestica d., id. Oecon. 1. Join: cura et d.; assiduitas et d.; d. et industria. Want of p., neglĭgentia.
2. expr. by tempŏri (or e), or ad tempus, in their proper connection: v.