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auguratus

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [au̯.ɡʊˈraː.tʊs][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [au̯.ɡuˈraː.tus][1]

Forms

augurātus m (genitive augurātūs); fourth declension[1] Priscian reports that the ancients said augerātus.[2] The Appendix to Probus notes that the ablative augurātū occurs only in the singular.[2]

Etymology

It is from Latin augur (“augur”) + -ātus, or auguror (“to take the auguries”) with the suffix -tus of action nouns.[3][2][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from Cicero,[4] who speaks of a man's augurship and of the emblem of the augurship: insigne auguratus.[5]

Semantic evolution

It is the office of augur, the augurship:[3][5] Cicero says that Romulus' augury was pastoral, not of the city, and Tacitus has a man invested with the augurship.[2][5] Pliny the Younger speaks of receiving it.[5] It also means augury, the practice of reading signs,[3] and Tertullian uses it as an equivalent of augurium.[5]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the office of augur.[5][4]
  • 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of a man holding the augurship.[5][4]
  • c. 160–220 AD – Tertullian, in the sense augury.[5][4]

Meanings

Noun

  1. The office of augur, augurship.[3][5][1]
  2. Augury, the reading of omens.[3][5]

Usage notes

The OLD has a separate adjective augurātus, the participle of augurō, meaning instituted after the auguries had been duly taken.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e 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 f g h i j Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press