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Forms

dissēnsiō f (genitive dissēnsiōnis); third declension[1]

Etymology

It is formed from dissentiō (“to disagree”) with the suffix -tiō.[2][3][1] The verb is formed from dis- (“apart”) and sentiō (“to feel, think”), which de Vaan derives from Proto-Italic *sentije- and Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to notice”), cognate with Lithuanian sintėti (“to think”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL finds it from Cicero and Varro on,[3] and Köbler gives Cicero,[5] who speaks of disagreement among men about the law.[6]

Semantic evolution

It is disagreement, dissension or difference of opinion, between people or parties, and of things a discrepancy, as Cicero's “difference of opinions”.[2][6] Glossaries render it with Greek words for disagreement and faction and with Latin discordia.[3]

Church Latin glosses it “quarrel, dissension”.[7] Köbler records it in early medieval laws and charters.[5]

Timeline

  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of disagreement about the law.[6][5]
  • 116–27 BC – Varro.[3][5]

Meanings

Noun

  1. Disagreement, dissension, difference of opinion; a quarrel.[2][6][1][7]
  2. (of things) Discrepancy.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  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 c d 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