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deliberatio

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [deː.liː.bɛˈraː.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [de.li.beˈrat.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

dēlīberātiō f (genitive dēlīberātiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin dēlīberō (“to consider”) + -tiō.[2][1][3] dēlīberō is made from dē- and lībra “balance, pound”.[2][4] De Vaan traces lībra to Proto-Italic *leiþra- (“pound”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Köbler dates it from Cicero;[5] the TLL finds the plural from the Rhetorica ad Herennium and Cicero's De inventione on.[3]

Semantic evolution

It is careful consideration, usually with others, deliberation or consultation: Cicero writes of public deliberations in which advisers are called in, and of the deliberations on the state that someone held at home with the leading men.[2][6] In rhetoric it is a speech in the deliberative style, or the occasion for one, as one of the kinds of cause.[2] Lewis & Short call it a Ciceronian word, very rare elsewhere.[6] Church Latin glosses it deliberation, consultation.[7] In Medieval Latin it is an ordinance or decree, an agreement, a condition; a second word, from a second medieval verb dēlīberāre, means deliverance, warrant, donation and pay.[8]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of public deliberations and of the deliberative speech.[2][6][5]
  • 769–813 AD – Charters use the medieval word.[5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. Deliberation, consultation, consideration.[2][6][1][7]
  2. (rhetoric) A deliberative speech, or the occasion for one.[2]
  3. (Medieval Latin) An ordinance, decree; an agreement, condition.[8]
  4. (Medieval Latin) Deliverance; a donation; pay.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  4. ^ a b 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 c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
  8. ^ a b c Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill