emotio

Forms

ēmōtiō f (genitive ēmōtiōnis); third declension^[1]

Etymology

It is a noun of action from Latin ēmoveō (“to move out, remove”), formed with the suffix -tiō.^[2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is recorded only in an ancient Greek–Latin glossary, where it renders Greek ἀποκίνησις (apokínēsis, “a moving away”).^[1][2][3]

Semantic evolution

The Latin word stayed a glossary word with the sense of a moving away.^[1][3] The modern sense of strong feeling belongs to French émotion, from which Italian emozione was borrowed;^[4] Conte compares it with the Late Latin ēmōtiō.^[4] English emotion (1570s) came from the French word, which goes back to ēmoveō.^[5]

Timeline

• ancient glossaries – A Greek–Latin glossary renders ἀποκίνησις with it.^[1][2]
• 1570s – English emotion is borrowed from French émotion.^[5]

Meanings

Noun

1. A moving away, removal.^[1][3]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
2. ^ a b c Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
5. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com