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cooperativus

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ko.ɔ.pɛ.raːˈtiː.wʊs][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [ko.o.pe.raˈtiː.vus][1]

Forms

cooperātīvus (feminine cooperātīva, neuter cooperātīvum); first/second-declension adjective[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin cooperor (“to work together”) + -īvus.[2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its first author is Boethius, in his translation of Aristotle's Topics, of something that helps another in some way.[2][4][3]

Semantic evolution

It is rare until the scholastics.[2][5] Albertus Magnus, commenting on the same passage of the Topics, where Aristotle has Ancient Greek συνεργόν (sunergón), explains it as helping, as it were propping up,[5] and uses it of a kind of knowledge that works together with experience;[5] Stephen Langton, Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon use it in their philosophical writings.[6] In Ecclesiastical Latin it means cooperative.[7] English cooperative, formed on the Latin stem of ⟨cooperātus⟩, is recorded from about 1600.[8]

Timeline

  • first quarter of the 6th century AD – Boethius uses it in his translation of the Topics.[2][3]
  • c. 1600 – English cooperative is recorded.[8]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) Working together, helping, cooperative.[2][4][7][5][6][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  4. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
  5. ^ a b c d Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  6. ^ a b 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 Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  8. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
  9. ^ Latinitatis medii aevi lexicon Bohemorum / Slovník středověké latiny v českých zemích (1977–), Prague: Academia; electronic version, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences