discrimen

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  A visible dividing line where two structures come together.
 * 2) A distinction, particularity, or distinguishing feature.
 * 3) A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold.
 * 4)  A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
 * 1) A distinction, particularity, or distinguishing feature.
 * 2) A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold.
 * 3)  A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
 * 1) A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold.
 * 2)  A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
 * 1) A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold.
 * 2)  A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
 * 1)  A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
 * 1)  A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.

Etymology
From. First attested (indirectly) in the fragments of satirist Lucilius’s (2nd century ) work.

Noun

 * 1) distinction, difference, discrimination
 * 2) * 4th C. , Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, book 4, in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, W. M. Lindsay (editor), Leipzig 1904, volume II, page 35, lines 29–30:
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- Discrīmen rūrsum sēparātiō, ā discernendō, Lūcīlius lib. XXIX: et amābat omnēs; nam ut discrīmen nōn facit, neque sīgnat līnea alba


 * 1) * 45 – 43 , Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 10.20(19) in Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Georg Goetz and Friederic Schell (editors), Leipzig 1910, page 178, lines 7–9:
 * Nōn enim idem oppidum et Rōma, cum oppidum sit vocābulum, Rōma nōmen, quōrum discrīmen in hīs reddendīs ratiōnibus aliī discernunt, aliī nōn.
 * For “city” and “Rome” are not the same, since “city” is a word, “Rome” a name, which distinction some observe when teaching these principles, and some not.
 * 1) * c. 500 , Prudentius, Hamartigenia 8–9:
 * Bīna bonī atque malī glomerat discrīmina sordēns hic mundus, Dominō sed caelum obtemperat ūnī.
 * This unclean world conglobates the double differences of good and evil, but the heavens serve the Lord alone.
 * 1)  discord, controversy, quarrel
 * 2) division, separation
 * 3) * 12 – 13 , Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto 1.38.61–62:
 * Unde sed hoc nōbīs, minimum quōs inter et hostem    discrīmen mūrus clausaque porta facit?
 * But whence should this come to me, between whom and the enemy    a wall and a closed gate make a very small separation?
 * 1) * 5th C. , Priscian (translator), Periegesis 29–33, original author: Dionysius Periegetes, in Poetae Latini Minores (volume V), Emil Baehrens (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, Leipzig 1879, page 276:
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- Fīnibus est Asiae latus artum lingua supernīs, Caspia quam mediam faciunt atque aequora pontī Euxīnī: locus hic discrīmen dīcitur esse Eurōpae atque Asiae disiungēns rūribus arva.


 * 1)  parting (of hair)
 * 2)  hairpin, bodkin that parts the hair
 * 3) * 4th–5th C. , Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 11.144:
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- Discrīminat id est dīvidit: unde et discrīmen capitis muliēbris dīcitur, ex eō quod caput aurō discernat.


 * 1) decision, judgement
 * 2) * 54 , Cicero, Pro Plancio 4.9:
 * Nōn est enim cōnsilium in volgō, nōn ratiō, non discrīmen, non dīligentia, semperque sapientēs ea quae populus fēcisset ferenda, nōn semper laudanda dīxerunt.
 * For there is no counsel in the masses, no reason, no judgement, no diligence, and the wise have always called tolerable what the people have done, not always to be praised.
 * 1) * 1st C. , Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great 4.9.23:
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- Audāciae quoque, quā maximē viguit, ratiō minuī potest, quia nunquam in discrīmen vēnit an temerē fēcisset.


 * 1) crisis, hazard, danger, risk
 * 2) * 4th C. , Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Esther 11:8:
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 * 1) * 4th C. , Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Esther 11:8:
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- Fuitque diēs illa tenebrārum et discrīminis, tribulātiōnis et angustiae, et ingēns formīdō super terram.

Noun

 * 1)  discrimination