thorough Copy link • thorough: germānus, v. perfect, No. V.: this is the best gen. equiv.: other adjs. may sometimes expr. the idea, as, subtīlis: v. exact, precise; sŏlĭdus, v. sound, genuine: the latter is used for t. by many modern writers, but often incorrectly: the superl. of an adj., or a compd. with per expr. the notion in many passages: a t. scholar, vir doctissimus or perdoctus: in com. or colloq. language tri- has a like force: a t.-paced knave, trifurcifer: see also thoroughly. Phr.: t. friendship, vera et perfecta amicitia, Cic. Am. 6, 22: nothing worthy of t. knowledge, nihil magna cognitione dignum, id. Fin. 5, 19, 50.
THOROUGH Copy link • THOROUGHComplete, verus: germanus (but ☞ before another adjective vere must be used, not verus: a thorough Ciceronian, *vere Ciceronianus): subtilis (of a person who performs anything with ingenuity, accuracy, or precision; of a thing done with such ingenuity, etc.): acutus: in anything, aliqua re or ad aliquid faciendum (of a person, who penetrates to the very pith of a matter; of a thing made or done by such a person): accuratus (made or done with care and exactness; only of things): exquisitus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) exquisitus et minime vulgaris: reconditus et exquisitus (above the ordinary; of persons and things). ☞ Solidus is used by good modern writers in the sense of “thorough,” but without any ancient authority. A thorough scholar, exquisita doctrina homo (who possesses more than ordinary learning); vir omnibus artibus perpolitus (a varied and extensive information): a thorough philosopher, philosophus subtilis; philosophus acutus: thorough scholarship, doctrina exquisita: to have a thorough knowledge of the Latin language, bene (more strongly optime) Latine scire: to have a thorough acquaintance with Latin litterature, in Latinis litteris multum versatum esse. “Thorough” may often be translated by summus, maximus, with or without omnium; by caput or princeps with a genitive; by totus ex aliqua re factus est or constat; versatus est in omni genere alicujus rei. In Plaut., by compounds with the Greek tri (trifur; triscurria): a thorough rogue, trifurcifer (comedy); caput scelerum (Plaut.); princeps flagitiorum (Cic.); veterator. Sometimes by a superlative adjective: a thorough fool, stolidissimus, stultissimus. That goes through, per locum penetrans: locum lustrans.