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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [dɪsˈsɛn.ti.oː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [disˈsɛn.t͡si.o][1]

Forms

dissentiō (present infinitive dissentīre, perfect active dissēnsī, supine dissēnsum); fourth conjugation[1] Coelius Antipater has a deponent dissentiuntur.[2]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin dis- (“apart”) + sentiō (“to feel, think”).[2][1][3] De Vaan traces ⟨sentiō⟩ to Proto-Italic *sentije/o- and Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to notice”), and compares Lithuanian sintėti (“to think”) and Old Church Slavonic сѧштъ (sęštŭ, “sensible, wise”).[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The OLD's first example is in Pacuvius, paired with concertāre, “to dispute and disagree”.[2][5]

Semantic evolution

It is to differ in opinion, to disagree, usually with ⟨ab⟩, as Cicero's many schools of philosophers disagreeing among themselves.[2][6] With a thing as subject it is to differ or be inconsistent, as when, in Cicero, the wording of a document differs from its intention.[2]

Church Latin glosses it “dissent, disagree, protest, object”.[7] English dissent (mid-15th century) comes from it, partly through Old French.[3]

Timeline

  • 220–130 BC – Pacuvius of disagreeing.[2][5]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of philosophers and of words that differ from their sense.[2][5]
  • mid-15th century – English dissent.[3]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To differ in opinion, disagree, dissent (from).[2][1][6]
  2. To disagree with each other.[2]
  3. (of things) To differ, be inconsistent.[2]
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) To protest, object; to refuse assent.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
  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 Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  6. ^ a b 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