coordinatio

Forms

coōrdinātiō f (genitive coōrdinātiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + ōrdinātiō (“arrangement”).^[1][2][3] The noun comes from ōrdinō (“to arrange”), which de Vaan takes as a denominative of ōrdō (“row, order”), made when the older ōrnō had lost its link with it.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Boethius, in the first quarter of the 6th century,^[5] uses it in his translation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, of coordinate series of terms.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

It became a technical word of Medieval Latin philosophy and theology:^[7] Albertus Magnus uses it for the order of a state and the battle order of troops,^[7] and British scholastics such as Duns Scotus speak of a coordinatio praedicamentalis, the ordered series of a category.^[8] It also meant an agreement^[7][9] and, in grammar, the coordination of clauses.^[9]

Italian coordinazione comes from the medieval word,^[3] and English coordination (about 1600) from French or from Medieval Latin.^[10]

Timeline

• 1st quarter of the 6th century AD – Boethius uses it in his Posterior Analytics.^[2][5]
• c. 1600 – English has coordination, from French or Medieval Latin.^[10]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) Coordination, arrangement together.^[6][11]
2. (Medieval Latin) Order, arrangement, relation.^[7][9]
3. (Medieval Latin, logic) A coordinated series.^[8]
4. (Medieval Latin) An agreement.^[7][9]
5. (Medieval Latin, grammar) The coordination of clauses.^[9]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
6. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
7. ^ a b c d e Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
8. ^ 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
9. ^ a b c d e Bartal, Antal, et al. (1987–), Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi Hungariae, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; online ed. ELTE
10. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
11. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson