Ideas across traditions · meditation · Medieval Latin

lectio divina

Works in 1 traditions beyond Medieval Latin attest this concept, on 4 cited pages.

2works in other traditions, with a cited page
0works in Medieval Latin, its home tradition on the maps
5further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
2judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

Analogues, judged

A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of lectio divina; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • dhyāna Indian60%Buddhist meditative absorption glossed 'Meditation/Zen' — adjacent meditation practice in another tradition, not lectio divina
  • samādhi Indian60%glossed 'meditative absorption'/'equanimity' — a distinct Indic technical term, not a Latin reading practice

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Early Christian & Monasticfrom 540 CE · 2 works

At home in Medieval Latin

No work labelled Medieval Latin on the four maps attests it behind the gate; the concept’s own tradition may be under-mapped, or its home works are held only in vocabulary lists.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.