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Forms

adēmptiō f (genitive adēmptiōnis); third declension[1] Glosses also have a popular form adimitio.[2]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin adimō (“to take away”) + -tiō.[3][1][2]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL's first example is from Cicero's speech De domo sua, on the taking away of citizenship (civitatis);[2][4] Lewis and Short treat that speech as not by Cicero.[5]

Semantic evolution

It meant a taking away, deprivation or removal:[3][5] Tacitus uses it of the seizure of property and of a province.[5] In law it was the revocation of a legacy and the withholding of a right, as in Ulpian.[3] Ecclesiastical Latin uses it for seizure or expropriation.[6]

Medieval Latin kept it for taking away or deprivation, as in the Formulae of Marculf, and also used it for an abolition or annulment.[7]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – It appears in Cicero's speech De domo sua, of citizenship taken away.[2][4]
  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of property and of a province.[5][4]
  • before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of withholding a right.[3][4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. A taking away, deprivation, removal; a seizure.[3][5][6]
  2. (law) The revocation of a legacy; the withholding of a right.[3]
  3. (Medieval Latin) An abolition, annulment.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c d e f Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  7. ^ a b Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften