aggregatio

Forms

aggregātiō f (genitive aggregātiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin aggregō + -tiō, a noun of action from the verb meaning “to add to a flock, gather together”.^[1][2][3] Conte calls it a Late Latin word.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Theodorus Priscianus, around AD 400, uses it in his book on women's diseases for an accumulation of milk.^[2][3][5]

Semantic evolution

Boethius used it in arithmetic for the adding of one number to another, and a letter of Pope Vigilius for a synodal assembly.^[2][3] Glossaries equate it with Greek words for a gathering.^[2]

Medieval Latin used it for an assembly or company, the recruitment of a member to a community, a heaping together, and in mathematics and philosophy for adding together, a sum or a composition.^[6][7] English borrowed it in the early 15th century, first in medicine, for the forming of a pustule.^[8]

Timeline

• c. 400 AD – Theodorus Priscianus uses it of an accumulation of milk.^[2][5]
• c. 1210 – A text in the Laws of Henry I uses it for a company of the servants of God.^[6]
• 1247 – A papal letter uses it for the admission of a fellow citizen.^[6]
• early 15th century – Borrowed into English as aggregation.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. A heaping together, accumulation.^[3][7][6]
2. (arithmetic) Addition, the adding of one number to another.^[3][6]
3. (Late Latin) An assembly, a gathering together.^[2][9]
4. (Medieval Latin) Admission to a community, recruitment.^[6]
5. (Medieval Latin) A sum; a composition of parts.^[7]

Related words

• English aggregation

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
4. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b c d e f Latham, R. E., D. R. Howlett, R. K. Ashdowne, et al. (1975–2013), Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: British Academy / Oxford University Press
7. ^ a b c Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
8. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
9. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson